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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
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.
Sirs,
Your continued care and labour of love, engages a like degree of both, for the growth of this Infant work. And therefore (though in the midst of manifold diversions) these pieces are ventured out. We live in an Age (O that we could live it) wherein the hand of Providence works gloriously, yea terribly: Having then, got three or four steps further into this Book of Providence, it will not be unseasonable, to show you the Prints of them. Especially seeing this History of Jobs affliction, looks so like a prophecy of ours; and (almost in every line) gives us some lineament of our present troubles and distempers, of our hopes and fears.
YOur continued care and labor of love, engages a like degree of both, for the growth of this Infant worke. And therefore (though in the midst of manifold diversions) these peeces are ventur'd out. We live in an Age (O that we could live it) wherein the hand of Providence works gloriously, yea terribly: Having then, got three or foure steps further into this Book of Providence, it will not be unseasonable, to shew you the Prints of them. Especially seeing this History of Jobs affliction, looks so like a prophecy of ours; and (almost in every line) gives us some lineament of our present troubles and distempers, of our hopes and feares.
In the three former Chapters we had a Narrative of the case, and of those occurrences out of which the Question here debated receives it's state. As also the bringing together of the Interlocutors, or persons maintaining this Discourse: As we may always observe in the writings of the Ancients, ⟨image 3⟩whether Natural, Moral or Divine, which are composed into Dialogues or Disputes.
In the three former Chapters we had a Narrative of the case, and of those occurrences out of which the Question here debated receives it's state. As also the bringing together of the Interlocutors, or persons maintaining this Discourse: As we may alwayes observe in the writings of the Ancients,