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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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Fourthly, He saith, Let it not see the dawning of the day, that is, let it be quite out of hope ever to receive any light, therefore let it not see so much as a glimpse of light. It is the strongest denial of the whole, to deny the least or the first part: As when the Apostle would have us abstain from all evil, he exhorts to abstain from the appearance of evil, (1 Thes. 5.) So here when Job would put his night quite out of hope to see a day, he saith, Let it not see (so much as) the dawning (that is, the least appearance) of the day. And this as it is the last, so the heaviest sentence upon his night. Observe then, That
Fourthly, He saith, Let it not see the dawning of the day, that is, let it be quite out of hope ever to receive any light, therefore let it not see so much as a glimpse of light. It is the strongest deniall of the whole, to deny the least or the first part: As when the Apostle would have us abstaine from all evill, he exhorts to abstaine from the appearance of evill, (1 Thes. 5.) So here when Job would put his night quite out of hope to see a day, he saith, Let it not see (so much as) the dawning (that is, the least appearance) of the day. And this as it is the last, so the heaviest sentence upon his night. Observe then, That
A hopeless condition is the worst condition of all other. Let a night be never so dark, never so tempestuous, yet the hope of a morning is a mercy and a light. A man will bear any heaviness, when he can say as David, Heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. Solomon tells us, that the hope deferred makes the heart sick, Prov. 13.12. How sick then are they who are hopeless, or who have quite lost their hope? Everlastingness is the head of the arrow, the sting and poison of all miseries; it is indeed the sting of Hell: that Hell is such a night as never shall see the dawning of the day, hath more torment and pain in it then all the pains in Hell. As the punishment of loss in Hell pinches more then the punishment of sense, so in the loss this pinches most that the loss is irrecoverable: They are deprived