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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.
First, Whatsoever the Lord wounds and takes from any man, he wounds and takes his own. He is Lord over all. Our health and strength are his, our riches are his; The world is his and the fullness of it (Psal. 50.) If he be hungry he needs not tell us; he can go to his own store. It is no wrong to dispose what is our own, wheresoever we find it. That rule is as true in revocations, as distributions: Friend, I do thee no wrong (Mat. 20.15.) Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Though there were no sin in man, yet there were no injustice in God, because he takes nothing from us, but what he gave us, and hath full power to recall, and take away.
First, Whatsoever the Lord wounds and takes from any man, he wounds and takes his own. He is Lord over all. Our health and strength are his, our riches are his; The world is his and the fulnesse of it (Psal. 50.) If he be hungry he needs not tell us; he can goe to his own store. It is no wrong to dispose what is our own, wheresoever we finde it. That rule is as true in revocations, as distributions: Friend, I doe thee no wrong (Mat. 20.15.) Is it not lawfull for me to doe what I will with mine own? Though there were no sinne in man, yet there were no injustice in God, because he takes nothing from us, but what he gave us, and hath full power to recall, and take away.
Secondly, Suppose man could say, that, what he had were his own, that, his riches were his own, that, health and strength of body were his own, yet God may take them away, and do no wrong. It is so among men, Kings and States call out their Subjects to war, and in that war their wounds are multiplied without any cause given by them: They gave no occasion why they should be appointed to such hazards of life and limb, to such hardships of hunger and cold; yet there is no injustice in this. When God casts man into trouble, he calls him out to his service, he hath a war, some noble enterprise and design to send him upon. To