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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.
First, Strictly, as it is opposed to the body.
Secondly, In a more large sense (by a Synecdoche of the part for the whole) for the whole man consisting of body and soul: If so here, then the meaning of Job in saying [My soul is weary of my life] is no more but this, I (Job) am weary of my life; that is, of the marriage or union of my soul and body, O that this band (which I (though most are grieved at the weakness of theirs) find too strong) were broken, or a bill of divorce granted for their separation. Life is the band or tie by which soul and body subsist together. And when that band is broken or cut asunder by the stroke of death, the body goes to the grave, and the soul or spirit returns to God who gave it.
Secondly, In a more large sense (by a Synecdoche of the part for the whole) for the whole man consisting of body and soul: If so here, then the meaning of Job in saying [My soul is weary of my life] is no more but this, I (Job) am weary of my life; that is, of the marriage or union of my soul and body, O that this band (which I (though most are grieved at the weaknesse of theirs) finde too strong) were broken, or a bill of divorce granted for their separation. Life is the band or tie by which soul and body subsist together. And when that band is broken or cut asunder by the stroke of death, the body goes to the grave, and the soul or spirit returns to God who gave it.
Again, When Job saith, My soul is weary of my life. Life may be taken either for the act of life, and so the sense is, I am weary of living; or it may be taken for the manner of life, and so the sense is, I am weary of that course or state of life wherein I am. Life is often put (not strictly for the act of living, but) for the state or condition in which a man lives, or with which life is clothed; The circumstances and concomitants of life are called life. Thus in our common speech, when a man is in misery, another saith, I would not have his life, or what a life hath he? The Apostles character