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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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Now saith Job, I could wish, I had had such a father or such a mother, or such friends, who forgetting natural affection, would have cast me out when I came first into the world; Why did the knees prevent me? From hence also we may observe, first,
Now saith Job, I could wish, I had had such a father or such a mother, or such friends, who forgetting naturall affection, would have cast me out when I came first into the world; Why did the knees prevent me? From hence also we may observe, first,
That an infant, as soon as he liveth, hath in him the seeds of death: So Job speaks of himself, Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of my mothers belly? Or why was I not stifled in the womb? why was ever that door opened to let me into the world? I could have died as soon as I lived. Not only is man acting sin, but nature infected with sin, the subject of, and subjected to the power of death: So the Apostle teacheth us, (Rom. 5.14.) Death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression; And who were those? Even little infants, they had life, yet death reigned over them, they were under the dominion of death, and subject to that king of terror. Sin is the seed of death, and the principle of corruption. God doth infants no wrong when they die, their death is of themselves, for they have the seed of death in them; We may affirm in one sense, that when infants die, they have no loss; and we are sure (in every sense) when they die, they have no wrong; All death (except death to sin) is the wages of sin, and therefore can be no injury to the sinner.
That an infant, assoone as he liveth, hath in him the seeds of death: So Job speakes of himselfe, Why died I not from the wombe? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of my mothers belly? Or why was I not stifled in the wombe? why was ever that doore opened to let me into the world? I could have died as soone as I lived. Not only is man acting sin, but nature infected with sin, the subject of, and subjected to the power of death: So the Apostle teacheth us, (