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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.
Some interpret this of a bodily distemper or disease: that God had brought a sickness upon him, which did even stop his breath, as if Job had been troubled with hardness of breathing,1 with the Tissick (as Physicians call it) or a stopping in the lungs. But we may rather take it figuratively, my sorrows put me out of breath, the Lord doth not only afflict me without giving me any account, but I have unceasing afflictions, which cannot be counted. No man ⟨p. 285⟩can tell how often he doth or suffers that which he always doth or suffers. I am so far from seeing a period of my troubles, that I have not so much as any pause or stop. He speaks in that high strain of rhetoric, called hyperbole, for in strictness of the letter, not to suffer a man to take his breath, is to kill and quite destroy him: but when he saith, God will not suffer me to breathe, it noteth the continuation of his sorrows, not the expiration of his days.
Some interpret this of a bodily distemper or disease: that God had brought a sicknesse upon him, vvhich did even stop his breath, as if Iob had been troubled with hardnesse of breathing,1 with the Tissick (as Physicians call it) or a stopping in the lungs. But we may rather take it figuratively, my sorrows put me out of breath, the Lord doth not only afflict me without giving me any account, but I have uncessant afflictions, which cannot be counted. No man ⟨p. 285⟩can tell how often he doth or suffers that which he alwaies doth or suffers. I am so farre from seeing a period of my troubles, that I have not so much as any pause or stop. He speaks in that high strain of rhetorick, called hyperbole, for in strictnesse of the letter, not to suffer a man to take his breath, is to kill and quite destroy him: but when he saith, God will not suffer me to breathe, it noteth the continuation of his sorrows, not the expiration of his daies.
- 1Quidam ad morbum referunt, quasi Job Astmate laborasset. Bede.