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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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So that in these words there are five gradations by which Job aggravateth the cause of this curse against his day. First, Because he was conceived. Secondly, Because the door was opened for him to be borne. Thirdly, Because being borne, he did not presently give up the ghost, or die as soon as he came into the world. Fourthly, Because there was so much care taken for him, as to take him upon the knee, and bind him up. Fifthly, Because there was a breast provided, and paps for him to suck: If any of these latter acts had been neglected, Job had died, and so escaped all these ensuing troubles of his life, sorrow had been hidden from his eyes.
So that in these words there are five gradations by which Job aggravateth the cause of this curse against his day. First, Because he was conceived. Secondly, Because the doore was opened for him to be borne. Thirdly, Because being borne, he did not presently give up the ghost, or die assoone as he came into the world. Fourthly, Because there was so much care taken for him, as to take him upon the knee, and bind him up. Fifthly, Because there was a brest provided, and papps for him to sucke: If any of these latter acts had been neglected, Job had died, and so escaped all these ensuing troubles of his life, sorrow had been hidden from his eyes.
And it is observed (especially in these latter acts of this gradation) that Job alludes to the custom of those times, wherein unnatural women left their children upon the cold earth, naked and helpless, as soon as they were borne: or casting them out, expose them to misery, or the casual nursery of nature lent them by beasts, more merciful then those beastly mothers, who would not afford them knees to prevent, nor breasts to give them suck. As in that place, Ezek. 16.4, 5. the woeful condition of such an infant is expressed, to shadow out the sinfully polluted and woefully helpless estate of that people, and of all people by nature, till the Lord prevents them by the knees of free grace, and suckles them with the breasts of his consolation. Thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite, (of a barbarous people, and what then?) In the day thou wast borne, thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou