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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.
That death in it self is no way desirable.
Is there any beauty in darkness, in thick darkness, where there is no order, in darkness, where the very light is darkness? One of the greatest plagues upon Egypt, 1was three days darkness, what then is there in death (naturally considered) but a plague, seeing it is perpetual darkness?
Is there any beauty in darknes, in thick darknes, where there is no order, in darknes, where the very light is darknes? One of the greatest plagues upon Egypt, 1was three daies darknes, what then is there in death (naturally considered) but a plague, seeing it is perpetuall darknes?
- 1Nostri theologizantes ad infernum referunt, sed Job ad sepulchrum respexit Merc.Nostri theologizantes ad infernum referūt, sed Iob ad sepulchrum respexit Merc.
If death be such in it self, and such to those who die in sin, how should our hearts be raised up in thankfulness to Christ, who hath put other terms upon death and the grave by dying for our sins! Christ hath made the grave look like a heaven to his. Christ hath ⟨p. 587⟩abolished death, not death it self (for even believers die) but all the trouble and terror of death, the darkness and the disorder of it, are taken away. Christ hath mortified death, killed death, so that now death is not so much an opening of the door of the grave, as it is an opening of the door of heaven. Christ, who is the Sun of righteousness, lay in the grave, and hath left perpetual beams of light there for his purchased people. The way to the grave is very dark, but Christ hath set up lights for us, or caused light to shine into the way. Christ hath put death into a method, yea Christ hath put death into a kind of life, or he hath put life into the death of believers. All the ghastliness, horror, yea the darkness and death of death is removed. The Saints may look upon the grave as a land of light, like light it self; yea as a land of life, like life it self, where there is nothing but order, and where the darkness is as light.