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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.
And as the afflictions of the body natural, so of the body politic may make them weary of their lives. How many in Germany and Ireland have been so wearied with hearing the voice of the oppressor, that they have wished themselves in their graves, only to get out of their hearing. And with us, since ⟨p. 425⟩these troubles began, have not many been tired with living? Have they not cried after death, and wooed the grave, as being weary of the world? The Prophet (Isa. 32.2.) speaks of a weary land. A man (meaning Christ) shall be as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. The land it self (being insensible) could not be weary; but he calls it a weary land, because the inhabitants living in the land, were wearied with the troubles and continual vexations which they found there. In these cases the soul of a believer stands (like Abraham when the Angels passed by) at the tent door of his body, ready to come forth, looking when God will but call, yea, he cries out, that he may be called (in the language of Job) My soul is weary of my life.
And as the afflictions of the body naturall, so of the body politike may make them vveary of their lives. How many in Germany and Ireland have been so vvearied vvith hearing the voice of the oppressour, that they have vvished themselves in their graves, only to get out of their hearing. And vvith us, since ⟨p. 425⟩these troubles began, have not many been tired with living? Have they not cried after death, and wooed the grave, as being weary of the world? The Prophet (Isa. 32.2.) speaks of a weary land. A man (meaning Christ) shall be as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. The land it self (being insensible) could not be weary; but he cals it a weary land, because the inhabitants living in the land, were wearied with the troubles and continuall vexations which they found there. In these cases the soul of a believer stands (like Abraham when the Angels passed by) at the tent door of his body, ready to come forth, looking when God will but call, yea, he cries out, that he may be called (in the language of Job) My soul is weary of my life.