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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the Book of Job being the substance of XXXV lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed for L. Fawne, 1656
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Chapters o… › Chapter 4 › Verses 14-16
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.
But to the point in hand, we see when the Devil and wicked Angels speak terror, they leave terror: Whereas if God, by good Angels speaks terror, or affrights his people with the tokens of his presence, he with a sweet and still voice refreshes and comforts them, before he departs.
But to the point in hand, we see when the Devill and wicked Angels speake terrour, they leave terrour: Whereas if God, by good Angels speaks terrour, or affrights his people with the tokens of his presence, he with a sweet and still voice refreshes and comforts them, before he departs.
And we may in that general apply it to our selves. That when God astonishes and terrifies us, when he makes our bones to shake, and rottenness to enter into them, we may expect comfort and refreshing are at hand; and we may build upon it, that the more we tremble, the more we shall be refreshed; Habakkuk in the place before cited, is express in this faith, I trembled, that I ⟨p. 106⟩might have rest in the day of trouble; to which he adds, when he cometh up to the people (he will invade or cut them to pieces) with his troops. As intimating, that they who will not tremble, shall be made to tremble; but when we actively labour to make our hearts tremble, or when God makes us tremble in such a way as this, we may build upon it, that, we shall rest in the day of trouble, at least we shall rest in the end of that day: God never leaves his people under a Cloud: he takes off trouble, and brings in a succession of comfort, or conquers the trouble by mingling a prevailing portion of comfort with it.
And we may in that generall apply it to our selves. That when God astonishes and terrifies us, when he makes our bones to shake, and rottennesse to enter into them, wee may expect comfort and refreshing are at hand; and we may build upon it, that the more we tremble, the more we shall be refreshed; Habakkuk in the place before cited, is expresse in this faith, I trembled, that I ⟨p. 106⟩