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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.
Others make the antecedent to He, a wicked man (such are within one degree of Satan his children) If the scourge slay suddenly, 1then the ungodly, who yet thrive and prosper, rejoice and make sport at the trial of the innocent; See what these good, honest, innocent men have got, they thought by their prayers and fastings, by their zeal and strictness to exempt themselves from these common afflictions, they presumed they should be spared, though all the world were consumed, but see they are destroyed as well as others, they smart under the lash, as well as we their neighbours, whom they looked upon, as the only whipping stocks, when a scourge should come, That, wicked men laugh and deride the innocent under affliction, and jeer them with, Where is your God now? what's become of all your praying and fasting? Where are the hopes and confidences, the privileges and protections ye talked of? is a truth.
Others make the antecedent to He, a wicked man (such are within one degree of Satan his children) If the scourge slay suddenly, 1then the ungodly, who yet thrive and prosper, rejoyce and make sport at the triall of the innocent; See what these good, honest, innocent men have got, they thought by their prayers and fastings, by their zeal and strictnesse to exempt themselves from these common afflictions, they presumed they should be spared, though all the world were consumed, but see they are destroied as well as others, they smart under the lash, as well as we their neighbours, whom they looked upon, as the only whipping stocks, when a scourge should come, That, wicked men laugh and deride the innocent under affliction, and jeer them with, Where is your God now? what's become of all your praying and fasting? Where are the hopes and confidences, the priviledges and protections ye talked of? is a truth.
- 1Impius justum subsannat malis implicitum.