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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.
Prayers may be heard and answered, when greatest afflictions are upon us.
Praiers may be heard and answered, when greatest afflictions are upon us.
Do not think your prayers are lost, because your afflictions are not removed, or that God doth not hear you,1 because he doth not presently relieve you. God forbears, when he doth not deny. He answers to our profit, when he answereth not to our feeling. He answereth to our spiritual interest, when not to our corporal. The sick man calleth to the Physician to take away the bitter, loathsome potion;2 and the wounded man calleth to the Chirurgeon to take away those corroding plasters, and to forbear those torturing operations. But the one gives him his potion, and the other lances his sores, and lays corrosives to his flesh; both these, while they vex the patient, answer him: for what's the reason, why the patient would have his bitter potion taken away? is it not because he would be better? And why would he have those painful operations forborne? is it not because he would have ease: Now, for those very reasons the Masters of those professions keep him to both; neither could they give him his desire, but by doing contrary to his will. Thus also the Lord is healing us, when we think he is only wounding us, and fulfilling our desires, while we cry out he is crossing them.
Doe not thinke your praiers are lost, because your afflictions are not removed, or that God doth not hear you,1 because he doth not presently relieve you. God forbears, when he doth not deny. He answers to our profit, when he answereth not to our feeling. He answereth to our spirituall interest, when not to our corporall. The sick man calleth to the Physician to take away the bitter, loathsome potion;2