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A35538	An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1653 (1653)	Wing C777; ESTC R19353	930,090	1,092

goest about to resolve this question An experienced Architect is not to be corrected by a Novice who never took tool in hand nor hath ever read line about that Art Wilt thou therefore who art made of the earth undertake to reprehend my work who made the earth in ordering and disposing the condition of man on earth Declare if thou hast understanding Note First The right declaring of any thing is a work of the understanding A man must see into a matter by the eye of his mind before he can duly declare his mind sense or sentence about it A fools bolt we say is soon shot his tongue runs before his wit but a wise man will not declare no man can declare well before he understands His wit keeps pace at least with his tongue He that answereth a matter saith Solomon Prov. 18.13 before he heareth it it is folly and shame to him It is so also him that heareth it if he answereth it before he understands it Declare if thou hast understanding Note Secondly Some works of God are such and so high that no man hath understanding enough to reach or declare them Declare if thou hast understanding how the foundations of the earth were laid Man knoweth not where he was not what he was before he was how then should he declare how any thing was done by God before he was The great thing which God would inform Job in is the same which the Apostle would inform us all in Rom. 11.33 34. while he brake out as a man amazed at the sight of a tremendous gulf in this passionate Exclamation O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgements and his wayes past finding out for who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his Counsellor The Lord having put this question to Job about the Creation of the Earth in general proceedeth more distinctly to put him questions about that work in allusion to buildings And here are four things in these two verses which have a twofold respect to buildings Here are two things which have respect to the form and symetry of a building And here are two things which have respect to the strength and firmness of a building The form symetry and right order of a building is laid down in the fifth verse where the Lord speaks of the measures of the earth and of stretching out a line upon it The measuring of a building and the stretching out of the line upon it respect the right ordering and modelling or the due frame of the fabrick The two other things that concern the strength of a building are the laying of the foundation and the fastening of the corner-stone both these we have in the sixth verse Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened or who laid the corner-stone thereof So then we have here these two great and necessary concernments of a building First The due form Secondly The firmness of it When a builder intends to raise a fabrick he first considereth and measureth the ground or plat where he intends to build With respect to this saith God Who hath laid the measures thereof Secondly When he is building Ad amussi eriguntur parietes he useth his line to keep the work level and right with respect to which God saith Who hath stretched the line upon it Thirdly The builder that his work may be substantial will be sure to fix his foundation sure in respect of which the Lord enquires of Job Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened Fourthly The builder will be very careful to set right the corner-stone which holds the walls together with respect to which he demands an account in these words Who hath laid the corner stone thereof Vers 5. Who hath laid the measures thereof That is taken the measures of the earth These measures respect the quantity or dimensions of the earth its length breadth and thickness these were laid meerly according to the good pleasure of God which no man is able to give a reason of and therefore he adds if thou knowest The word which we render laid implies a laying with art as also with care and diligence in all keeping a due decorum or proportion respecting the length breadth and deepness of the building God used this word when he spake to Moses about the fabrick of mans body which is a little world a compendium of the greater world Exod. 4.11 Who hath made mans mouth or who hath made the deaf or the seeing c. The Text is Who hath laid mans mouth Who hath laid it in that due proportion or so placed it that it may fit with the whole and every member that it with the eyes eares c. may stand in perfect order both for use and ornament Thus the Lord hath laid the measures of the earth He measured out the several parts of it where the vallies should be and where the plains where the hills and mountains and where the rivers and channels He measured all these that is he disposed them in a comely order There is a great appearance of the wisdom of God in setling every thing in its proper place that one may answer in proportion with another the perfection and beauty of the whole ariseth out of the symetry and proportionableness of the parts Who hath laid the measures thereof Further This laying the measures notes as the exactness so the greatness of the work In Scripture language a building of measures or an house of measures signifieth a great house or building Jer. 22.14 Wo to him that saith I will build me a wide house and large chambers Doman commensuratam Sept. The Hebrew is an house of measures that is of a great measure The Septuagint render it a measured house a house having a due proportion of longitude and latitude of heighth and depth When the searchers sent by Moses came back and reported the state of the land which they had viewed we saw said they men of a great stature Numb 13.32 The Text is men of measures vast and tall men Little things have little need of measuring and 't is scarce worth while to do it But as great things are greatly to be admired so they are worthy to be measured How great how marvelous is that mystical City and Temple whose measures were taken and shewed to Ezekiel in a Vision chap. 40.41 42.48 v. 30 31 32 33 34 35. Such is the earth in greatness that God only who is himself altogether immeasurable and therefore greatest of all can lay and hath laid the measures of it Who hath laid the measures thereof If thou knowest The Lord puts this supposition again to his question as before Declare if thou hast understanding so here if thou knowest Some read these words ironically thus Declare Quandoquident scitus es Jun. for th●u doubtless knowest who hath laid the measures thereof Thou art so wise and skilful a man that

neither foundation nor corner-stone Remember O Job and well consider that as when in the beginning I saw the earth without form and void Gen. 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I by a creating word commanded it into form and fulness So when thou seest nothing but Tohu and Bohu confusion and disorder voidness and darkness in the earth even then I am laying the measures of Justice and stretching the line of Truth and Equity upon all that is done or suffered and will bring forth my work in full perfection Nothing shall be amiss or out of order when my work is finished how much soever it may seem to be amiss as to beginnings or present actings Therefore O Job leave off thy complainings and rest quietly in my dealings Some have questioned the Natural Works of God yet 't is impossible to mend any part or the least pin of them And 't is as impossible for the wit and understanding of Men or Angels to mend any thing in the Providential Works of God That 's the scope of this discourse even that the consideration of Gods power and wisdom in making the world should b●idle our curiosity and awe our spirits when they begin to quarrel with yea but to query about any thing that God hath done though it appear to us altogether irregular and confused or as done without either line or measure The Lords work is beautiful and glorious 't is also sure and strong As his Promise or Covenant is ordered in all things and sure 2 Sam. 23.5 So are his Providences too for they are the issues and accomplishments of his Promises o●dered as to means and sure as to the end They shall end o● issue in b inging about the things which are laid in the foundation and corner-stone of his purposes counsels and decrees all which work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose Rom. 8.28 And to convince Job from the Works of Creation that he ought not only to acquiesce or rest quietly under the Works of Providence whatsoever they were but to rejoyce in them the Lord tells him in the next verse that there was great rejoycing yea shouting for joy when the foundations of the earth were fastened and the corner-stone thereof laid JOB Chap. 38. Vers 7. 7. When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy THere are two opinions among learned Interpreters concerning the general state of this verse First Some here reassuming the first words of these questions proposed at the fourth verse by God to Job Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth c. make this the second instance of Gods mighty power in the works of Creation Where wast thou when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy As if the Lord had said I have as yet questioned thee only where thou wast when I made the earth which is the most inferiour part of the world But now I purpose to rise higher in my discourse and therefore I put these questions to thee Where wast thou when I set up the morning stars those sparkling lights which shine to the earth through the firmament of heaven as also the sons of God those blessed spirits all which sang together and shouted for joy at the appearance of my power and wisdom Secondly Others connect these words in a continued sense and sentence with the verse going before Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth c. at which sight the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy Taking the words thus they carry an allusion to or are a similitude taken from noble buildings or structures whose foundations use to be laid with solemnity and their corner-stones to be set up with shouting and acclamation That it was anciently customary to make such acclamations at the laying of the foundation of some eminent building besides what is clear out of humane Authors and Histories we have several Scripture evidences The 87th Psalm throughout setting forth the structure of the Gospel Church of the spiritual Zion by way of prophesie begins thus His foundation is in the holy mountains there 's the foundation of Zion laid Then followeth as at the second verse The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Glorious things are spoken of thee O thou City of God! Selah As if he had said there was a great acclamation high praises at the laying the foundation of Zion with which the Psalme closeth more expresly v. 7. As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there all my Springs are in thee Again Psal 118.22 23 24. there is no sooner mention made of the corner-stone the stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner but presently we have acclamations about it This is the Lords doing it is marvelous in our eyes This is a blessed work indeed This is the day which the Lord hath made we will rejoyce and be glad in it That corner-stone of salvation Jesus Christ being laid as I may say all the stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for joy This is the day which the Lord hath made If we go to those material buildings which were figurative of the Church and Christ we shall find the like Ezra 3.10 When the Jewes at the return of their Captivity began to build the Temple the Text saith at the tenth verse And when the builders laid the foundation of the Temple of the Lord then they set the Priests in their apparel and with their voices with the Levits and the sons of Asaph to praise the Lord. As soon as the foundation was laid they were all in song and raised up in holy rejoycings though some of the old men who remembred the first Temple wept when the foundation of this was laid That Scripture Zach. 4.7 speaks of the same thing where the Prophet in the Spirit fore-seeing the disappointments of all the enemies of the people of God thus triumphs over them by faith Who art thou O great Mountain before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain he shall bring forth the head-stone thereof with shouting That is the building of Hierusalem or the restoring of the Temple shall be brought to perfection and then they shall cry grace grace unto it Now in allusion to the practice both of men in common and of the people of God in special at the raising of great structures the Lord tells us here that when he laid the foundations of the earth and when he fastened the corner-stone thereof there was a Triumph made Then the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy Thus we have the state of this verse either taking it for another instance of the power of God in creating the Stars and the Angels or else subjoyning it as an acclamation