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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.
I rather expound him in a third sense, that the comparison is made between God and the lion; Thou, O God, like a lion, dost hunt me, Consent of Scripture is clearest for this interpretation, which often represents God in afflicting his people under the notion of a lion, as will appear in the proof of the observation arising from it; which is,
That the Lord seemeth sometimes to put off all pity and compassion towards his people.
So the Church complains (Lam. 3.10.) He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places. God threatened by the Prophet Hosea (Chap. 5.14.) I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah, I, even I, will tear and go away. I will afflict them fiercely and terribly. Again (Hos. 13.7.) I will be unto them as a lion, as a leopard by the way will I observe them. Hezekiah speaks the same language (Isa. 38.13.) I reckoned till morning, that as a lion, so will he break all my bones. As when man dealeth cruelly with his brother, he is a wolf to him, or a lion to him (Psal. 17.12.) (Mans acting of beastly lusts, is all the metamorphosis or change of men into beasts, which Heathen Poets have so much fancied, or the holy Scriptures so often mentioned.) Now, I say, as man acting cruelly upon man, is called a lion, so also is God. When God would show the abatements of his wrath, then he saith, I am God, and not man (Hos. 11.8, 9.) How shall I give thee up Ephraim? &c. Thus he debates, by and by he votes and resolves negatively, I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger: I will not return to destroy Ephraim, for I am God, and not man. But when he would show the highest workings of his wrath, then he denies to show himself so much as man: