A35439:1911
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.
For the close of this point consider, the rod may be removed, not only by a total release from affliction; But
For the close of this point consider, the rod may be removed, not only by a totall release from affliction; But
First, By an abatement of the affliction; as we are said to leave off those graces, from the degrees and lively actings of which we fall and decline: He that lacketh these things (that is, who aboundeth not, as he hath heretofore, in the exercise of them) is blind, &c. (2 Pet. 1.9.) Thou hast left thy first love, saith Christ to the Angel of Ephesus, when the heat of his former love was cooled: So the Lord may be said to remove our troubles, when he remits the extremity, and cools the heat of them.
First, By an abatement of the affliction; as we are said to leave off those graces, from the degrees and lively actings of which we fall and decline: He that lacketh these things (that is, who aboundeth not, as he hath heretofore, in the exercise of them) is blinde, &c. (2 Pet. 1.9.) Thou hast left thy first love, saith Christ to the Angel of Ephesus, when the heat of his former love was cooled: So the Lord may be said to remove our troubles, when he remits the extremity, and cools the heat of them.
Secondly, The rod is removed, when it is sanctified to us, when the Lord (who is excellent in working) causeth it to do us good. The Saints die, yet death is abolished, as to the Saints, by the death of Christ (2 Tim. 1.10