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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, To be brought to the dust, is a description of any low and poor condition, Psal. 22.29. All they that be fat upon the earth (that is the great and mighty) shall eat and worship, All they that go down to the dust (that is, the mean and base) shall bow before him. As if he had said, rich and poor, high and low, the King and the beggar, have alike need of salvation by Jesus Christ, and must submit unto him, that they may be saved, for as it there follows, None can keep alive his own soul. The captivity of the Jews in Babylon is expressed under those notions of death, and of dwelling in the dust, Isa. 26.19. to show how low they were brought; even so low, that no power but his, who can raise the dead could work their deliverance.
Secondly, To be brought to the dust, is a description of any low and poor condition, Psal. 22.29. All they that be fat upon the earth (that is the great and mighty) shall eat and worship, All they that go down to the dust (that is, the mean and base) shall bow before him. As if he had said, rich and poor, high and low, the King and the beggar, have alike need of salvation by Jesus Christ, and must submit unto him, that they may be saved, for as it there follows, None can keep alive his own soul. The captivity of the Jews in Babylon is expressed under those notions of death, and of dwelling in the dust, Isa. 26.19. to shew how low they were brought; even so low, that no power but his, who can raise the dead could work their deliverance.
Job saw himself brought to the dust of a low condition, of poverty and of disgrace, and he feared he should be brought to the dust of death, and of the grave. That's the meaning of this expostulating query, And wilt thou bring me into the dust again? He was not at all brought out of the dust of his affliction, and therefore he could not say of that, Wilt thou bring me into the dust again?