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 ...

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• Canutus his answer to his flattering Courtiers. 110
• Captivity, how taken in Scripture. 931 Any affliction is a kind of captivi∣ty. 932
• Care to be cast upon God. 177. Care of God over the beasts of the earth, and fowls of the air, should convince man that God will take care of him. 279, 288. Care of God to provide for the vilest creatures. 296. Care of God for his p ople seen in two things. 643
• Carefulness what to be avoided. 746
• Carnal men judge of God by them∣selves. 834
• Causes, natural causes produce natu∣ral effects, and so do spiritual cau∣ses spiritual effects. 214
• Charity, a great trial of it. 880
• Children, not to charge their parents, when able to help themselves. 324. They who excel in any thing are ele∣gantly called the children of it. 781
• Children a great blessing. 993. Pa∣rents duty in naming them. See names, how it is a blessing to have many children. 1023. Good chil∣dren a great joy. 1024
• Christ his eternity. 45. He is the cor∣ner-stone. 69, 70. Christ a light for two great ends. 122. Christ com∣pared to a Lion in four respects. 283.

• Christ resembled by the Hind in three things. 312. Why Christ is called a horn of salvation. 381. Christ like the Eagle shewed in se∣ven things. 489, 490. Christ a re∣lief against all evil. 648. Christ the best friend. 958
• Church, a vain thing to oppose it. 685 Church set out by Christ in her spi∣ritual excellencies. 721. God terri∣ble in the Church. 729
• Cloathed, to be cloathed with any thing what it imports. 428, 429
• Cloud, how a garment to the sea. 101. Clouds called the Arcenal of hea∣ven, why. 192. The wisest men can neither tell how many the clouds are, nor fully what they are. 272
• Cock, why crows at Mid-night. 254. He is a natural clock. 270
• Cold, whether natural or spiritual, is a great binder. 243
• Comforting the sorrowful a great duty. 967 Six cases which call us to com∣fort others, together with so many ways of ministering comfort to them. 968. Four considerations mov∣ing to this duty. 969
• Command of God creating. 114, 115
• Comeliness, it consisteth in three things. 717
• Company, no company pleaseth, but such as is sutable. 340
• Compulsion grievous to beasts, much more to men. 341
• Condemnation of self, what good. 545
• Confession of sin, when right. 525
• Contending, of two sorts. 497. How man contendeth with the word, how with the works of God. 497, 498. There is a spirit in weak man, ready to contend with the strong God. 499. In two cases we are apt to contend with God about his works. 501. Four considerations moving us to beware of all contendings with God. 502, 503. In what way we may contend with God. 503, 504. They who contend with God would seem wiser than he. 505
• Conversion, why so difficult a work. 360
• Covenant, Hebrew word notes two things, and why. 670
• Counsel, what it is. 25. The word counsel, put absolutely or alone, notes Gods counsel. 25
• Counsel of God may soon be darkned by us. 30. Some do it intentionally, the greatness of their sin. 30, 31
• Courage, where God gives courage man cannot make afraid. 438. True courage fears not present dan∣ger. 449
• Craft, Some creatures full of it. 292. What some cannot do by strength they do by craft. 292, 293
• Creation, that work calls us to praise God. 89. Four things in creation move us to praise God. 90
• Creatures, God can make any of them hurtful to us. 188. Two things shew the power of God in the creature. 189. Several degrees of excellency in the creatures. 625. An inference from it. 626. God can easily sub∣due the strongest creatures. 638. Two inferences from it. 638, 639.

• God to be magnified in the qualities, and quantity, or bigness of his crea∣tures. 663. All creatures made serviceable to man. 672. Some creatures terrible to man. 690. An inference from it. 690. God pleased in setting forth the natural excellencies of his creatures. 718. The excellen∣cies of the creature shew the excellen∣cy of God. 722. God would have man know the excellencies of the crea∣ture. 723
• Crocodile, not tongueless. 662