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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.
I should have slept.] Sleep is the image of death, and death is more then the image of sleep; sleep is a short death, and death is a long sleep. Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to everlasting contempt, Dan. 12.2. Our friend Lazarus sleepeth, (saith Christ to his Disciples, J•h. 11.11.) but I go that I may awake him out of sleep. In the 14th, verse, Jesus said unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
I should have slept.] Sleepe is the image of death, and death is more then the image of sleepe; sleepe is a short death, and death is a long sleepe. Many of them that sleepe in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to everlasting contempt, Dan. 12.2. Our friend Lazarus sleepeth, (saith Christ to his Disciples, J•h. 11.11.) but I goe that I may awake him out of sleepe. In the 14th, verse, Jesus said unto them plainely, Lazarus is dead.
Then had I been at rest.] We usually say when a man goes to sleep, he goes to rest: Yet rest is more then sleep, for sometimes a man sleeps when he doth not rest, his very sleep being troubled, and he troubled in his sleep: But when rest is joined with sleep it is perfect sleep. The word here used, signifies a very quiet, settled and peaceable condition: Hence Noah had his name, And he called his name Noah, saying, this son shall comfort us, 1concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed, Gen. 5.29. He was rest and comfort to the old world, by preaching righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith, which alone gives rest unto the soul, and is able to refresh us in the midst of all those toils and labours which that first curse brought upon the world, both new and old.