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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.
Verse 21. Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.
Verse 21. Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoycing.
Till he fill thy mouth with laughing.] And is it but just till then? Will the Lord, when he hath set his people a laughing, leave them and help them no more? Will he, when he hath given them cause of joy, cast them off? His people had better never laugh at all, then laugh upon those terms.1 No man can laugh long, nor at all (upon any due ground) if God leave him.
- 1Particula, donec non significat postea projiciendum esse à Deo simplicem, sed quod immutabiliter servabitur à Deo.
We are not to understand this [Till] to be a terminative, or a determinative particle, as if the Lords care and favour towards his people, should be only till he put them in a good estate, and then they must shift for themselves. God puts no such limits to his love. It cannot so much comfort the soul to know God loves us now, as it ⟨p. 133⟩