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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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Some sow Pillows under the elbows of those who delight in sin, and daub them up with untempered mortar; others thrust Swords, and shoot arrows into the bowels of those, who mourn for sin, and in stead of bringing well-tempered mortar to bind and cement their souls, lay hard stones under them, which vex and gall their souls. Both are Miserable comforters.
Some sow Pillowes under the elbowes of those who delight in sin, and dawbe them up with untempered morter; others thrust Swords, and shoot arrowes into the bowels of those, who mourne for sin, and in stead of bringing well-tempered morter to binde and cement their soules, lay hard stones under them, which vex and gaul their soules. Both are Miserable comforters.
They who undertake the office of comforting others, should consider these three things especially.
First, The nature of the affliction, whether internal, or external; that which will comfort a man in bodily afflictions, will not do it in soul afflictions.
First, The nature of the affliction, whether internall, or externall; that which will comfort a man in bodily afflictions, will not doe it in soule afflictions.