A35389:1665
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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And there the weary are at rest.
The weary.] Some by the weary, understand those whom the wicked have wearied by troubling of them; and that is a truth, that in the grave, the wearied, those that wicked men have turmoiled and vexed,1 are at rest; so the sense is made out thus; that in the grave, they that trouble others, and the troubled, the poor persecuted, and the proud persecutors are at rest. But rather, by the wearied, we are to understand only the wicked themselves, There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest, that is, there those wicked men, who weary and tire out themselves with vexing and troubling of others, are at rest; they then cease from those vexatious undertakings, which have consumed their spirits and worn out their bodies; And the reason why I rather expound the weary to be the wicked (though the other be a good sense) is, because Job afterward speaks of the rest of those that are wearied, who are passive under the cruelties and plottings of those wicked ones. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. Hence observe, first,
The weary.] Some by the weary, understand those whom the wicked have wearied by troubling of them; and that is a truth, that in the grave, the wearied, those that wicked men have turmoiled and vexed,1 are at rest; so the sense is made out thus; that in the grave, they that trouble others, and the troubled, the poore persecuted, and the proud persecutors are at rest. But rather, by the wearied, we are to understand only the wicked themselvs, There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest, that is, there those wicked men, who weary and tire out themselves with vexing and troubling of others, are at rest; they then cease from those vexatious undertakings, which have consumed their spirits and worne out their bodies; And the reason why I rather expound the weary to be the wicked (though the other be a good sense) is, because Job afterward speakes of the rest of those that are wearied, who are passive under the cruelties and plottings of those wicked ones. There the wicked cease from troubling, and there the weary be at rest. Hence observe, first,