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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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Thirdly, They should consider the temper of the Person afflicted, if he be pressed in conscience for sin, they should not press his conscience with sin; much less should they thunder out judgement and terror against him for sin; if he be very weak they should use few words; if he be passionate, they should use gentle words, lest, in stead of persuading, they provoke his spirit: Many a soul is cast down, and swallowed up in despair by the ignorance or unfaithfulness of those who would be called Comforters, and Supporters: (Ezek. 13.19.) They slay the souls that should not dye, and save them alive, that should not live. Unskilful Physicians of the body, kill more then bodily diseases. And though the unskilfulness of soul-physicians doth not indeed kill souls that should dye (for 'tis their own sin that kills them) nor can kill the souls that should not dye (for the medicine of Christs ⟨p. 218⟩most precious blood, will heal and save such from their sins) yet unskilful soul-physicians shall be judged and dealt with, as having done all this, because they have done their utmost to do it; which is also the meaning of that Text (1 Cor. 8.11.) And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ dyed: that is, an indiscreet use of that liberty which thy knowledge teacheth thee, doth that which may be accounted a destroying of thy weak Brother. As that knowledge, so the ignorance before spoken of, slays the souls that should not dye. As it requires the power, so the wisdom and teachings of God to comfort and extricate poor s•ules, in and from the Labyrinth of their sorrows.
Thirdly, They should consider the temper of the Person afflicted, if he be pressed in conscience for sin, they should not presse his conscience with sin; much lesse should they thunder out judgement and terrour against him for sin; if he be very weak they should use few words; if he be passionate, they should use gentle words, lest, in stead of perswading, they provoke his spirit: Many a soule is cast downe, and swallowed up in despaire by the ignorance or unfaithfulnesse of those who would bee called Comforters, and Supporters: (Ezek. 13.19