A35439:1922
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.
And then by fear we may understand,
1First, Those rays and beams of Majesty, which the Lord letting out a little upon Job, he was not able to bear them. We find when in those ancient times God appeared, the beholders were terrified. Manoahs wife tells her husband, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an Angel of God, very terrible (Judg. 13.6.) And when God appeared to Abraham, An horror of great darkness fell upon him (Gen. 15.12.) in what a woeful plight was Daniel, receiving the visions of God? (Dan. 10.8.) God who is the joy of his people, is also a terror to them. Things which are not what they seem to be, are not so terrible near hand as at a distance; God who is infinitely more then he can seem to be, is more terrible near hand then at a distance. Hence it is, that when God, who is always near us, shows himself to be so, our spirits fail within us. In that presence of God which we shall have in glory, there will be fullness of joy. And in that presence of God which we have in the ways of grace, there is abundance of joy. But if while we are here in a ⟨p. 403⟩state of grace, some little of that presence of God, which is proper to the state of glory falls upon us, we are more distressed then comforted with it: How much more then, when God clothes himself with terror, and (as he did to Job) so reveals himself unto us.
1First, Those raies and beams of Majesty, which the Lord letting out a little upon Job, he was not able to bear them. We finde when in those ancient times God appeared, the beholders were terrified. Manoahs wife tels her husband, A man of God came unto me, and his countenance was like the countenance of an Angel of God, very terrible (