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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Henry Overton, 1647
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.
Thus, I say, sometimes the Lord is so resolved to take away life, riches, glory, peace, the all both of persons and Nations, that nothing shall help us, or hinder him, no, not the prayers and cries, not the supplications and tears of his own people, which are the strongest stops of all in the way of provoked justice. If prayer cannot stay destruction, and obtain a reprieve from death, if the prayers of a Moses and a Samuel cannot, nothing can; it is, as if God had said, The best means shall fail you, therefore all means shall fail you: if when prayer cannot hinder God, we resort to other means, it is as if we should think to fasten an Anchor with a twined thread, which hath broken a cable; or to conquer an enemy with a pot-gun and a bull-rush, whom we could not with sword and Cannon, And as God will not sometimes be entreated, so he ought not at any time time to be questioned; which is the next point.
Thus, I say, sometimes the Lord is so resolved to take away life, riches, glory, peace, the all both of persons and Nations, that nothing shall help us, or hinder him, no, not the praiers and cries, not the supplications and tears of his own people, which are the strongest stops of all in the way of provoked justice. If praier cannot stay destruction, and obtain a reprieve from death, if the praiers of a Moses and a Samuel cannot, nothing can; it is, as if God had said, The best means shall fail you, therefore all means shall fail you: if when praier cannot hinder God, we resort to other meanes, it is as if we should thinke to fasten an Anchor with a twined threed, which hath broken a cable; or to conquer an enemy with a pot-gun and a bull-rush, whom we could not with sword and Cannon, And as God will not sometimes be entreated, so he ought not at any time time to be questioned; which is the next point.
Who shall say unto him, What doest thou?