A35439:1904
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.
3. Affliction is called a rod, in regard of the end for which it is sent. A rod is not prepared to kill, nor is it an instrument of ⟨p. 399⟩cruelty. A rod is not for destruction, but for correction. There are indeed destroying rods, which God will destroy, and save his people who are destroyed by them, I will destroy the rod of the oppressor (Isa. 9.4.) Nebuchadnezzar the rod of Gods anger; was a destroying rod, yet they among the Jews, who feared God, were only corrected, while they were destroyed. The Lord means no hurt to those who are good, when he makes them smart and die under the rod of those who are evil. If ever any man might think he had a sword in his bowels, rather then a rod upon his back, Job might, yet even he calls it a rod, while he calls to God for the removing of it, Remove thy rod away from me. And seeing he calls to have it removed, we may observe,
3. Affliction is called a rod, in regard of the end for which it is sent. A rod is not prepared to kill, nor is it an instrument of ⟨p. 399⟩cruelty. A rod is not for destruction, but for correction. There are indeed destroying rods, which God will destroy, and save his people who are destroied by them, I will destroy the rod of the oppressour (Isa. 9.4.) Nebuchadnezzar the rod of Gods anger; was a destroying rod, yet they among the Jews, who feared God, were only corrected, while they were destroied. The Lord means no hurt to those who are good, when he makes them smart and die under the rod of those who are evil. If ever any man might think he had a sword in his bowels, rather then a rod upon his back, Job might, yet even he cals it a rod, while he cals to God for the removing of it, Remove thy rod away from me. And seeing he cals to have it removed, we may observe,