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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.
First, No pertinacious hard hearted man could ever glory that he got the better, or the day of God, and so prospered into a peace by war; that's a way of prosperity, in which he shall never tread. Gideon told the men of Penuel, When I come again in peace; that is, when I have conquered and return prosperous, then, &c. No man ever conquered God, and so returned in peace. Peace was never the trophy of a war with him.
First, No pertinacious hard hearted man could ever glory that he got the better, or the day of God, and so prospered into a peace by warre; that's a way of prosperity, in which he shall never tread. Gideon told the men of Penuel, When I come again in peace; that is, when I have conquered and return prosperous, then, &c. No man ever conquered God, and so returned in peace. Peace was never the trophie of a war with him.
Secondly, Who ever hardened himself against God and prospered? That is, did ever any man so weary out God by lengthening this ⟨p. 167⟩war, that God was (as it were) forced at last to offer him terms of peace? So it happens sometimes with men,1 with Nations and Kingdoms. They not getting peace by victory, but being spent and tired out with war, begin to think of treating. Did ever any one put the Lord to offer a treaty with articles of peace, to save himself from further trouble? They who have not strength enough to overcome, may yet have power enough to vex and weary their adversary. But God can neither be vanquished by force, nor vexed with our policies into a peace with man.
Secondly, Who ever hardened himself against God and prospered? That is, did ever any man so weary out God by lengthening this ⟨p. 167⟩warre, that God was (as it were) forced at last to offer him terms of peace? So it happens sometimes with men,