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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.
In the third Chapter Job wished for death, his wish was examined there, about the lawfulness of it, I shall now only examine (a touch about which was given lately) whence this weariness of life causing wishes to be rid of life doth arise. There is a weariness of life incident only, and proper to wicked men. And there is a weariness of life, which may grow upon the best of men. Take a brief account of the usual grounds of both.
In the third Chapter Job wished for death, his wish was examined there, about the lawfulnesse of it, I shall now only examine (a touch about which was given lately) whence this wearinesse of life causing wishes to be rid of life doth arise. There is a wearinesse of life incident only, and proper to wicked men. And there is a wearinesse of life, which may grow upon the best of men. Take a brief account of the usuall grounds of both.
First, Carnal men are often sick with discontent, and die of a humour: If the Lord will not give them their lusts, they bid him take their lives. Necessaries and competencies will not satisfy them, they must have superfluities; they languish, if they have not quails to their Manna, as Israel once desired and had. Was it any thing but this, which made Ahab go home sullen and sad? Sullen sadness is a degree of this weariness. Ahab had a Kingdom, and yet he could not live without a vineyard. He that takes away another mans life to obtain what he desires, thinks his own life searee desirable, unless he may obtain it. There was a spice of this distemper in Jonah, though a good man, and a Prophet (Jonah 4.8.) because the Lord did but kill his gourd, kill me too, saith Jonah, He wished himself to die, and said (his gourd being dead) It is better for me to die then to live. It is an excess of desire, when we desire any outward thing (much more when we desire things unnecessary, things not to supply our wants, but to serve our lusts) As Rachel did children (who are the best and noblest of outward things) Give me them, or else I die, (Gen. 30.1.)