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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1650
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AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 16 › Verse 2
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.
1The Vulgar translation speaks thus, Ye are burden some comforters: A comforter should take off burdens; sorrow is a burden: As the judgements that God threatened upon the Jews, and other Nations, are represented in the Prophets, under the name of burdens, The burden of Judah; the burden of Israel; the burden of Moab; the burden of Babylon; the burden of Idumea: So any affliction upon a person, is his burden; and the business of those who come to comfort a soul in affliction, should be to take off his burden, at least to lighten it. Jobs Friends did indeed bind the burden faster upon his spirit, and therefore he might well call them Burdensome comforters. False hearts count all truth a burden: The Land (saith Amaziah) is not able to bear his words (Amos 7.10.) yet his were words of truth, and tended to peace. Some truths may be burdensome at some times to a good heart. Hard words are always burdensome; Job had store of them.
1The Vulgar translation speakes thus, Yee are burden some comforters: A comforter should take off burdens; sorrow is a burden: As the judgements that God threatned upon the Jewes, and other Nations, are represented in the Prophets, under the name of burthens, The burthen of Judah; the burthen of Israel; the burthen of Moab; the burthen of Babylon; the burthen of Idumea: So any affliction upon a person, is his burthen; and the businesse of those who come to comfort a soule in affliction, should be to take off his burthen, at least to lighten it. Jobs Freinds did indeed binde the burthen faster upon his spirit, and therefore he might well call them Burthensome comforters. False hearts count all truth a burthen: The Land (saith Amaziah) is not able to beare his words (Amos 7.10.) yet his were words of truth, and tended to peace. Some truths may be burthensome at some times to a good heart. Hard words are alwayes burthensome; Job had store of them.
- 1Consolatores Onerosi. Vulg.