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An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…
An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Job delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus near the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Iob delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus neare the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by G. Miller for Henry Overton, 1643
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Darkness and the shadow of death.] These words are the fourth branch of the curse upon his day, he repeats the former curse, but with new additions; He had said before, let this day be darkness, now he saith, let darkness and the shadow of death stain it.
Darknesse and the shadow of death.] These words are the fourth branch of the curse upon his day, he repeates the former curse, but with new additions; He had said before, let this day be darknesse, now he saith, let darknesse and the shadow of death staine it.
The shadow of death.] The word considered in the composition of it, may be translated image of death. And because the shadow of a body gives us the image of a body, (as in the shadow of a man, you have the image and proportion of a man; in the shadow of a Tree, you have the image and representation of a Tree) because (I say) the shadow gives the image of a body, therefore the Hebrews by a Metonymy, call an image a shadow: So that the shadow of death, is such darkness as is like death, the very image of death: He was not contented in general to say, let darkness stain it, but if any would know what kind or degree of darkness he intends, these words expound his meaning to be, the worst darkness that can be: Any darkness is evil, but darkness and the shadow of death is the utmost of evils. David put the worst of his case, and the best of his faith, when he said Psal. 23.4.1 Though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, that is, in the greatest evil, I will fear no evil. The estate of those men who lived beyond the line of the Gospel, (and that is a very doleful place to live in) though a paradise for outward pleasure, is thus described by the Prophet, Isa. 9.2. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light (Jesus Christ,) they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. Again, The shadow of a thing in Scripture, notes the power of a thing, and to be under the shadow of a thing, is to be under the power of a thing. The bramble (