A35389:1658
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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When he had spoken of the rest of death, concerning those great and mighty ones, and the rest of death concerning untimely births and infants, then he speaks of the rest which poor oppressed ones, or which wicked oppressors have in death; all these have a rest in regard of outward bodily troubles, agitations and labours in the grave, therefore certainly there I should have been at rest.
When he had spoken of the rest of death, concerning those great and mighty ones, and the rest of death concerning untimely births and infants, then he speakes of the rest which poore oppressed ones, or which wicked oppressours have in death; all these have a rest in regard of outward bodily troubles, agitations and labours in the grave, therefore certainely there I should have been at rest.
There (that is in the grave) the wicked cease from troubling: True rest and wickedness never meet, rest and the wicked meet but seldom. And it is but half a rest, and it is rest but to half a wicked man, to his bones in the grave, and it is rest to that half but for a little time, only till the resurrection.
There (that is in the grave) the wicked cease from troubling: True rest and wickednesse never meete, rest and the wicked meete but seldome. And it is but halfe a rest, and it is rest but to halfe a wicked man, to his bones in the grave, and it is rest to that halfe but for a little time, only till the resurrection.
1The word which is here used for wicked, is considerable: Though every wicked man be a sinner, yet every sinner is not a wicked man: It is one thing to sin, and another thing to be wicked; there are divers words in the Hebrew tongue, which signify as it were ⟨p. 425⟩