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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	reproof_n	speak_v	verbal_a	42	3	16.0898	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81199	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.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1655 (1655)	Wing C769A; ESTC R222627	762,181	881

meaning is the greatest strength of or whatsoever is strongest in heaven the heavens themselves with all their strength Metaphorice haec dicuntur non quod coelum columnas habeat quibus nitatur sed quod in vehementiori orbis concussione videatur nobis perindè ac sinutent ejus columnae Merc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 contritus concussus fuit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stupēt denotat moram anamiin rei singularis consideratione ad eam cognoscendam ae●imandam Coc tremble at the reproofes of God So that this is onely a figurative and Rhetoricall expression not that the heaven hath any materiall pillars by which it is supported but because in those mighty concussions which God causeth in the world it is as if the pillars or powers of heaven it selfe were shaken and did Trembleth and were astonished at the reproofe of God But how may these pillars whatsoever they are be sayd to tremble and be astonished I answer 't is thus expressed in allusion to men who being severely reproved menaced and threatned tremble and are astonished Here are two termes used first they tremble which word signifyeth as it were the pounding and shattering of the heavens to peices or as if they were even ground to powder or crumbled to dust Secondly They are astonished The original word imports not a light sudden transient astonishment but an astonishment that stayeth abideth and taketh up the minde or which draweth the minde to a deepe consideration of the matter presented and thereupon to wonder and admiration Isa 29.9 Stay your selves and wonder that is sit downe and consider this thing and wonder barely to wonder is not enough you must sit downe stay and rest your selves to wonder you must take your fill of wonder at this thing But how can the heavens be astonished which are not onely without understanding but without life I grant that to be astonished is proper onely to rationall creatures yet it is attributed to beasts metaphorically yea and to things inanimate or without life and sense as here and Jer. 2.12 to the heavens for as rejoycing is attributed to the heavens and to the earth to the mountaines and to the valleys all these are sayd to rejoyce to sing so also astonishment feare and trembling are attributed to heaven and earth And as livelesse creatures are sayd to rejoyce sing and praise God when men doe it so likewise they are sayd to tremble when men tremble when God doth such things as affect men with astonishment then also heaven and earth are spoken of as affected with astonishment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 increpavit objurgavit reprehendit du●i●èr cum potestate Thirdly What is meant by the reproofe of God which causeth the pillars of heaven to shake and be astonished The word signifies a sore chiding the severest reprehension and that not a bare reproofe but a reproofe with authority and command as a father or master reproveth his son or servant Thus when Joseph told his dreame That the Sunne Moone and eleven Starrs made obeysance to him Jacob his father rebuked him and sayd unto him What is this dreame that thou hast dreamed shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow downe our selves to thee to the earth And when Joshuah the high Priest stood before the Angel of the Lord and Satan at his right hand to resist him Zeph. 3.2 The Lord said to Satan the Lord rebuke thee ô Satan even the Lord that hath chosen Hierusalem rebuke thee This rebuke had a threatening in it and was spoken as with an angry countenance in which there might be read displeasure and indignation The vulgar translates not rebuke but nod The pillars of heaven tremble at thy nod There is a reproofe in a nod Pavent ad nutum ejus Vulg Sic illud poetae natu treme-facit Olympum as it was sayd anciently He made Olympus tremble with a nod of his head A nod of the head may signifie a reproofe as well as a word of the mouth There is a twofold reproofe first verball or by words secondly reall or by action and gesture A verball reproofe may be reall but every reall reproofe is not verball Both God and man can act reproofes as well as speake them And the word here used is applyed in Scripture not onely to verball and voyce reproofes but to reproofes given by gestures and by actions for as the holy lives of Godly men who walke exactly are a reproofe to the world though they speake not a word of reproofe so the actings of God are reproofs though he doth not speake Thus David sayth Psal 9.5 Thou hast rebuked the heathen thou hast destroyed the wicked How did God rebuke the heathen even by destroying the wicked that act of thine hath been a reproofe to the heathen and shewed them their folly In the same sence 't is sayd againe Psal 68.30 Rebuke the company of speare men the multitude of bulls with the calves of the people till every one submit himselfe with peices of silver The rebuke there prayed for upon that boysterous and bloody generation was not a word but a worke of rebuke that God would doe somewhat that might be a rebuke upon them and a stop to them as if he had sayd Seing this company of speare men and multitude of the buls will not heare any of thy words seing they are not capable eyther of reproofe or counsell therefore rebuke them by some extraordinary hand and visible tokens of thy displeasure as it follows scatter the people that delight in war Thus some understand it here that God giveth a reproofe to the heavens not by a word spoken but by his providentiall actings and wonderfull workings in the world Further this reproofe is expounded by that which is indeed the voyce of God and so called in the 29th Psalme the Thunder which though it hath a naturall cause for which reason Atheists laugh at the simplicity of those who are led up to the thoughts of God and to a reverentiall aw of his power at the hearing of it yet that doth not at all hinder but that God doth in a speciall manner dispose of it as he doth of all other naturall things when he pleaseth to serve his providence in the demonstrations of his wrath among the children of men To which end we may say that God doth often send forth his voyce from the clouds and chides from heaven in thunder The voyce this reprooving voyce of the Lord is upon the waters that is upon the waters which are above the firmament the God of glory thundereth the Lord is upon many waters the voyce of the Lord is powerfull the voyce of the Lord is full of majesty the voyce of the Lord breaketh the Cedars hee breaketh the Cedars of Lebanon the voyce of the Lord divideth the flames of fire the voyce of the Lord shaketh the Wildernes the Lord shaketh the Wildernes of Kades c. Thus the pillars of