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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.
Secondly, The unsuitableness and perverseness of other mens manners or dispositions weary the soul, The righteous soul of Lot was vexed from day to day in seeing and hearing the unrighteous deeds of the debauched Sodomites (2 Pet. 2.8.) The soul of God is said to be wearied by such courses of the sons of men (Psal. 95.10.) Forty years long was I grieved, or wearied, with that generation. The Lord (as we may speak with reverence) was even weary of his life, he had such a troublesome people to deal with; they grieved him at the heart (as the old world did, Gen. 6.6.) and were a heavy burden to his Spirit. That's the Apostles language, in his description of ⟨p. 414⟩that peoples frowardness, and of Gods patience towards them (Act. 13.18.1) He suffered their manners forty years in the wilderness; which some render, He bare them as a burden; the continual murmurings and unbelief of that people were to the Lord (who is yet above all passion) as a heavy weight is to a man, or as the peevishness and unquietness of a sucking child is to the nurse, as our translators conceive the Greek word should rather be. Thus also he reproves the same people by the Prophet (Isa. 43.24.) Thou hast wearied me with thine iniquities. And Christ (though by another word) speaks the same thing of his own Disciples (Mark 9.19.2 when the man possest with an unclean spirit being brought to them, they could not cast him out) How long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? I am wearied with your unbelief, O ye of little faith. The Disciples were still so slow of heart, and came so short of a Gospel-spirit, that Christ professeth, He was burdened even with them, How long shall I suffer you? The il manners of all, are a weariness to the good, but theirs most who are nearest to them. Which is also the reason, why a godly man is wearied most of all with the corruption of his own heart, for that is nearest to him of all.