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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty-seven lectures, delivered at Magnus near London Bridge. By Joseph Caryl, preacher of the Word, and pastor of the congregation there.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty-seven lectures, delivered at Magnus near London Bridge. By Joseph Caryl, preacher of the Word, and pastour of the congregation there.
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1655
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(that is, will God manifest himself gloriously on the earth?) behold the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee, how much less this house that I have builded? Solomon knew that heaven could not contain, that is, limit God, much less could the house which he had builded. Yet the Lord made the Temple another heaven to himself, it was as his second heaven, there the Lord had a kind of glorious residence, beyond what he had in any other part of the world; Now the Assemblies and Congregations of the Saints are in a special manner the dwelling place of God, and his second heaven; He dwells so much in the Churches that he seems not to dwell at all in any part of the world beside (2 Cor. 6.16, 17.) I will dwell in them, and walk in them. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you. God who is in all the world, dwells only in and with his people. They who separate from whatsoever is unholy, have him nearest them who is altogether Holy. To conclude this point, we may make use of that distinction of the Schools to clear the difference how a corporal substance, and a spiritual, as as also how a spiritual created and uncreated substance, may be said to be in a place. All bodies are in place circumscriptively, spiritual substances created, Angels and souls of men are in place definitively: We cannot draw a line about an Angel, as about the body of a man, yet the Angel is so in this ⟨p. 110⟩place, as not in another: but God who is a spirit, and uncreated, is in place repletively, that is, he filleth all places where he is, but is not limited by any place where he is, He is (as some have not unfitly spoken) a Sphere whose centre is every where, and whose circumference is no where. This is a mystery which indeed we are not able to comprehend by reason, but we must take it down by faith. The Lord is in the height of heaven, yet so there, as he is not shut up there.
(that is, will God manifest himselfe gloriously on the earth?) behold the heaven, and heaven of heavens cannot conteine thee, how much lesse this house that I have builded? Solomon knew that heaven could not conteine, that is, limit God, much lesse could the house which he had builded. Yet the Lord made the Temple another heaven to himselfe, it was as his second heaven, there the Lord had a kinde of glorious residence, beyond what he had in any other part of the world; Now the Assemblyes and Congregations of the Saints are in a speciall manner the dwelling place of God, and his second heaven; He dwells so much in the Churches that he seemes not to dwell at all in any part of the world beside (