A35389:1743
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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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.
As death is a punishment to most, 1so not to die is a punishment to some. Job speaks of it as of an affliction upon such, they long for death and it cometh not. Death is an affliction to all, it is a punishment to all unbelievers, a punishment with a sting; And as all wicked men are punished with death, so some of them are punished with this, that they (for the present) cannot die, (Rev. 9.6.) In those days men shall seek death, and shall not find it, and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. It is laid as their punishment that they should live, and as an affliction beyond all their afflictions, that then, they could not die. They are in a sad condition, who can have no remedy or cure of their troubles but death; but how sad is their condition, who cannot obtain that remedy? It is like the punishment of the damned in Hell,2 they shall long for death but it will not come, and they shall ever seek for death but shall never find it. No wicked man did ever part so unwillingly with his soul when he died, as he will unwillingly meet with it, when he riseth again; And as the first death doth part soul and body unwillingly, so the second death keepeth soul and body together unwillingly. They have a taste of this misery in this life, whose souls are truly said, to be imprisoned in their bodies; And O how desirous are they to dig down these mud-walls, ⟨p. 452⟩and make an escape, but cannot. Fourthly observe,
As death is a punishment to most, 1so not to die is a punishment to some. Job speakes of it as of an affliction upon such, they long for death and it cometh not. Death is an affliction to all, it is a punishment to all unbeleevers, a punishment with a sting; And as all wicked men are punished with death, so some of them are punished with this, that they (for the present) cannot die, (Rev. 9.6.) In those dayes men shall seeke death, and shall not finde it, and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. It is laid as their punishment that they should live, and as an affliction beyond all their afflictions, that then, they could not die. They are in a sad condition, who can have no remedy or cure of their troubles but death; but how sad is their condition, who cannot obtaine that remedy? It is like the punishment of the damned in Hell,