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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.
As God doth not often send his people strange deliverances, and works wonders to preserve them; so he sends them many strange afflictions, and works wonders to trouble them. And as many punishments of sin upon wicked men, so some trials of grace upon godly men are very wonderful. The Lord threateneth the Jews (Deut. 28.59.) that he would make their plagues wonderful▪ he would make strange work among them. And he saith of Jerusalem, I will wipe it, as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it up-side down, or wiping it and turning it upon the face thereof, (2 King. 21.13.) To see a great City handled like a little dish, or a strong Nation turned topsy turvy (as we say) or the bottom upwards, is a strange thing. It is an ordinary thing to see cups & platters turned up-side down, but it is not ordinary to see Kingdoms and Nations turned up-side down. To wipe Jerusalem as a dish, was to do that which was never done before. Some expound that place of the frequency of affliction, that God would smite them again and again; as they that make clean a dish, wipe it over and over, that no filth may stay in it. The Seventy and the ⟨p. 560⟩Vulgar translate,1 I will blot out Jerusalem as they use to blot out a table-book that is written all over; He that hath a table-book full of writing, and would write more, takes a cloth or a sponge, and blotteth out what was written: & that he may thoroughly wipe his table-book, he rubs it often with his sponge, to get the letters clear out. Thus God threatened to do with Jerusalem, He would wipe or blot out, her golden characters and honourable inscriptions, till nothing of Jerusalem but her shame, and her sin should remain unblotted out. Was not the judgement brought upon Jerusalem a wonder? when the Prophet saith (Lam. 4.12.) The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed it. The Apostle speaks thus of his own, and of his fellow-Apostles afflictions (1 Cor. 4.9.) We are made a spectacle (as upon a theatre) unto the world,