A35439:1685
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.
I will comfort my self.
Comfort is the very life of our lives, the spring of our year, the light of our day, the Sun in our firmament, the complement of mercy: and therefore Christ gives his Church the sum of all mercy,1 in that one promise of sending the Comforter. The Hebrew ⟨p. 349⟩word signifies to strengthen,2 because when a man is cast down with sorrows his spirit is weakened, Comfort is the repair of strength; If I say, I will comfort, that is, corroborate and strengthen my self (Psal. 39.13.) O spare me (saith David) that I may recover my strength; or that I may a little comfort my self: The Septuagint renders it, That I may get my life again, that I may be enlivened, and re-insouled, or fetch back my soul again. Here, if I say I will comfort my self, Take heart at grass (as we say) and play the man, then my sorrows renew upon me.
Comfort is the very life of our lives, the spring of our year, the light of our day, the Sunne in our firmament, the complement of mercy: and therefore Christ gives his Church the summe of all mercy,1 in that one promise of sending the Comforter. The Hebrew ⟨p. 349⟩word signifies to strengthen,2 because when a man is cast down with sorrows his spirit is weakned, Comfort is the repair of strength; If I say, I will comfort, that is, corroborate and strengthen my self (