Job 38

6. To be unsettled in good is the sin of the devils (Jude 6). They are called morning stars (Job 38:7), but falling stars; they were holy but mutable. As the vessel is overturned with the sail, so their sails being swelled with pride, were overturned (1 Timothy 3:6).

2. In that he set upon our first parents so quickly, before they were confirmed in their obedience. The angels in heaven are fully confirmed in holiness; they are called stars of the morning (Job 38:7). and they are fixed stars. But our first parents were not confirmed in their…

How have you fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer! your pomp is brought down to the grave. Who sets bounds to the sea, and bridles the proud waves (Job 38:11). God is the supreme monarch, all power is seated originally in him; and the powers that be are of God (Romans 13:1).

For what was before time was eternal: the angels' first rise and original reaches no higher than the beginning of the world. It is thought by the learned, that the angels were made that day on which the heavens were made (Job 38:7): When the morning stars sang together, and all…

There are many hard knots in nature, which we cannot easily untie: why the sea should be higher than the earth, yet not drown it? What way the light is parted (Job 38:24). What is the reason of all the occult qualities, sympathies, and [reconstructed: Antipathies]?

Who but God could make the sweet music in the heavens, cause the angels to join in consort, and sound forth the praises of their Maker? (Job 38:7) When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. If a man should go into a far country, and see statel…

It was a custom among the Romans to write down the names of their senators in a book, therefore they were called Patres Conscripti; this is the honor of the righteous, their names are written among the courtiers of heaven. Believers in regard of their mystical union with Christ,…

Not the second: 'The earth is the Lord's and the fullness of it' (Psalm 24:1); his name is God All-sufficient (Genesis 17:1). Not the last: 'As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those that fear him' (Psalm 103:13); 'The Lord is exceedingly pitiful and of tender me…

The second thing whereby Satans power is restrained, is the will of God. For looke as the sea, being by nature, apt to ouerflowe the whole earth, is kept in, and shut vp within the shore, (as it were) with dores or gates, that it cannot break forth; and that by the Lord himselfe…

Can you with all the love-waters on earth quench a coal of fire that came from heaven? Send up to heaven a mandate against the decree and dispensation of God, if you can; if the gates of death can open to you; or if you have seen the doors of the shadow of death; or can do such…

He is the Foundation Stone of this Building, with seven Eyes engraven on him, or filled with an absolute perfection of all the Gifts and Graces of the Spirit, Zech. 3. 9. which when he is exalted also as the Head Stone in the Corner, there are shoutings in Heaven and Earth, cryi…

First, The Chaldee Paraphrast will have this joyful voice to be the voice of the Cock, Let not the Cock crow that night, the crowing of the Cock is a comfortable voice in the night; The Cock is a natural clock, and by his crowing tells us the hours of the night: As if Job had sa…

This was the greatest event of Providence that ever the angels had beheld. We read of their singing praises when they saw the formation of this lower world: Job 38:7 "When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy." And as they sang praises then, s…

Surely, it is not the husbandman's, but God's steps that drop fatness. Alma Mater terra, the earth indeed is a fruitful mother, but the rain which fecundates and fertilizes it, has no other father but God (Job 38:28). APPLICATION.

How glad are those blessed creatures to be employed for God? No sooner were they created, but they sang together, and shouted for joy (Job 38:7). How did they fill the air with heavenly melody, when sent to bring the joyful tidings of a Saviour to the world?

Meekness is a grace that cleaves the stock, and holds it open, that the word as the imp may be grafted in; it breaks up the fallow ground, and makes it fit to receive the seed, captivates the high thoughts, and lays the soul like white paper under God's pen. When the dayspring t…

And for its Depth, who can discover it? The Sea in Scripture is called, The Deep, Job 38. 30. The Great Deep, Genesis 7:11. The gathering together of the Waters into one place, Genesis 1:9. If the vastest Mountain were cast into it, it would appear no more than the head of a Pin…

If the ways of God's universal providence be untraceable, then most of all the workings of his grace in a secret unperceivable way in this new birth: he gives this spiritual being as the dew which is silently and insensibly formed, and this generation of the sons of God compared…

We keep this relation for univocal generations, and rational creatures. Thus by creation the angels are said to be the sons of God (Job 38:7): "When he was laying the foundations of the earth, the sons of God shouted for joy" — that is, the angels. And thus Adam also was called…

Some are loath to embrace Godliness for fear it will be a stain to their Reputation, and bring them out of favor with great men: you see how it does raise a persons renown, it makes him precious in Gods sight, he is a Jewel. Believers in regard of their mystical union with Chris…

IF it be asked how may Good conference be arrived at? 1. If you would be discursive in Religion, get your minds well furnished with knowledge. Hereby, you will have a Treasure to fetch from, Job 38:18. I am (says Elihu) full of matter.

God enlightens the mind, directs the judgment, gives understanding what to do or say. So he challenges it as his prerogative (Job 38:26): Who has put wisdom into the inward parts, or given understanding to the heart? The exercise of the outward senses is from God, who gives the…

They teach man to pray, or call upon man to call upon God; for they cry to God, they observe their morning prayer before they break their fast (as I may speak) — the ravens forget it not (Psalm 147:9). He gives to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry; this cry i…

Whereas prophesying should be in that openness and familiarity of language, that the unbelieving, yes, unlearned should be convinced, and have the secrets of his heart made manifest to his own conscience, that so he may be truly humbled and acknowledge God's power and presence i…

As first that the Lord might show his power, and that absolute sovereignty he has over the worst men, and the worst of creatures those infernal [reconstructed: spirits], and the worst and most violent of all their corruptions, and that he has the reins of all their violence and…

If the sun is absent, it is night for all the stars. The angels are called stars (Job 38:7), but it would be night in heaven if the Sun of righteousness did not shine there. It is the king's presence that makes the court.

What way the light is parted? Job 38.24. Why the Sea should be higher than the Earth, yet not drown it?

And a due Sense hereof is the best preservative of the Soul, from cleaving inordinately to these things below. And when God in any Instance, by Afflictions, or otherwise, shews to Believers their Transgression herein, and how they have exceeded, Job. 38.8, 9. it makes them caref…

Why the Loadstone should rather draw Iron, than Gold a more Noble Metal? What way the light is parted? Job 38:24. How the bones grow in the womb?