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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 take this suddenness of the scourge in slaying for a mitigation of the judgement, and others for the heightening of it. In the former sense suddenness doth not imply the sudden coming of it, but the sudden killing of it, a scourge which doth it's work quickly; so that a man doth not hang long as it were upon the rack of an affliction. The Church of the Jews (Lam. 4.6.) complains of their afflictions, as if the judgement of Sodom and Gomorrah had been more easy and eligible then that which the Lord brought upon Jerusalem; not that they thought God had dealt worse with them then with Sodom and Gomorrah, but as to this particular, because Sodom was overthrown in a moment, but Jerusalem was pined away by degrees with famine. A sudden scourge is a kind of mercy. Better die once then die always: Or, as the Apostle speaks concerning the afflictions of the Saints (Rom. 8.36. To be killed all the day long. When one under torture petitioned Tiberius the Roman Emperor, a bloody cruel tyrant, that he might be quickly dispatched, he desired not life or pardon, but a speedy death; the Emperor sent him word,1 That as yet he was not reconciled to him, or become his friend. His cruelty would neither suffer the man to live longer, nor to die speedily. And some observe, that as the Prophet expresses his trouble at the prosperity of the wicked in their lives, so at this kind of prosperity in their deaths, There are no bands in their death, 2but they are lusty and strong, (Psal. 73.4.) that is, when they die, they die in their strength, they are not pined away with long and tedious sicknesses: They live in pleasure, and die with ease. They are not bound to their beds, and tied down with the cords of chronic lingering diseases. It is some favour (if the scourge must slay) to be slain, in this sense, suddenly.
Some take this suddennesse of the scourge in slaying for a mittigation of the judgement, and others for the heightning of it. In the former sense suddennesse doth not imply the sudden comming of it, but the sudden killing of it, a scourge which doth it's work quickly; so that a man doth not hang long as it were upon the rack of an affliction. The Church of the Jews (