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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
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Hence Observe.
Some while they go about to act the part of comforters, do but add to their sorrow, whom they pretend to comfort; and in stead of comforters prove tormenters. But when doth a man deserve this title, A miserable comforter? That which caused Job to charge ⟨p. 215⟩his Friends with this miscarriage of their pains with him, will resolve the question, and tell us, when.
Some while they goe about to act the part of comforters, doe but add to their sorrow, whom they pretend to comfort; and in stead of comforters prove tormenters. But when doth a man deserve this title, A miserable comforter? That which caused Job to charge ⟨p. 215⟩his Freinds with this miscarriage of their paines with him, will resolve the question, and tell us, when.
First, They gave him little hope of good, or they did not open to him a done of hope wide enough: 'tis true, they made some overtures that way, which yet (comparatively to what they ought) were scarce considerable. And Eliphaz who had been somewhat large upon the point in his first congress with Job, speaks nothing of it in his last: For as if he thought his case desperate, and had given him for a lost man, he shuts up in the dark, as we see, in the close of the former Chapter; where he thunders out the judgements of God upon Hypocrites, and Bribe-takers, without so much as one word of comfort to the penitent: This is to be a Miserable comforter. The song of comforters should at least be mixed, like that of David to the Lord, of mercy and of judgement (