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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
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This is the last part of the curse which Job passeth upon his night: Let the Stars of the twi-light thereof be dark. Some comforts of the night are natural, others are accidental. Job in the former verses wishes away the accidental comforts; The meeting of friends, and the voice of music: In this verse, he removes the natural comforts of the night, which are two. First, The present light of the Stars. Secondly, The expected light of the Sun.
This is the last part of the curse which Job passeth upon his night: Let the Starres of the twi-light thereof be darke. Some comforts of the night are naturall, others are accidentall. Job in the former verses wishes away the accidentall comforts; The meeting of friends, and the voice of musick: In this verse, he removes the naturall comforts of the night, which are two. First, The present light of the Starres. Secondly, The expected light of the Sunne.
The first comfort of the night is, that though it be dark by the absence of the Sun, yet there is some light by the presence and ⟨p. 383⟩shining of the Stars: And it is a greater comfort in the night, to remember, that though now I have no light but from a glimmering Star, yet shortly the light of the glorious Sun will shine upon me. But in how dark a condition is the night, when the Sun is gone and the Stars too; when the Stars are clouded from shining, and the Sun stayed from rising. This Job wishes as the state of that night, Let the Stars thereof be dark, yea let it have no hope to see the Sun, that is, let it be an everlasting night.
The first comfort of the night is, that though it be darke by the absence of the Sunne, yet there is some light by the presence and ⟨p. 383⟩shining of the Starres: And it is a greater comfort in the night, to remember, that though now I have no light but from a glimmering Starre, yet shortly the light of the glorious Sunne will shine upon me. But in how darke a condition is the night, when the Sunne is gone and the Starres too; when the Starres are clouded from shining, and the Sunne stayed from rising. This Job wishes as the state of that night, Let the Starres thereof be darke, yea let it have no hope to see the Sun, that is, let it be an everlasting night.