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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.
They who have endured very great afflictions, may yet find their afflictions greatening and increasing.
They who have endured very great afflictions, may yet finde their afflictions greatning and encreasing.
He had said before, I am full of confusion, and yet here he saith, My affliction increaseth. When we have as much as we think, our backs can bear, yet (possibly) more weight may be laid on. When we hope our affliction is upon the declining hand, that those waters are upon an ebb, and the fire slacking, then they may flow higher, and the furnace may be heated seven times hotter then before. The Lord threateneth obstinate and rebellious sinners (Levit. 26.) I will punish you yet seven times more for your sins: Though I have brought such calamities upon you, that ye have been ready to say, surely, now God hath done his worst, we are in as bad a case as we can be; no, saith the Lord (who hath infinite wisdom to find out ways of afflicting, as well as of showing mercy) I will punish you yet seven times more for your sins; no man knows how much more God can punish him; His judgements in the executing of them, as well as in the laying of them, are past finding out. We know not the beginning of them, neither do we know when they will end. Now as the Lord afflicteth some seven times more for the punishment of their sins, so others seven times more for the trial of their graces: Sufferings are sent in perfection, to make us more perfect through sufferings; Afflictions swell with pride, to abate the swellings of our pride, or to show how those swellings are abated into humility. God hath unsearchable riches and treasures of chastenings, as well as of wrath or of love. And as when we think we have received as ⟨p. 554⟩much mercy as God can give us, he can yet give us more, and make our mercies seven-fold greater to our apprehensions then before; so also he can dispense himself in the matter of affliction.