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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 4
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So then, if we read the words as a wish, O that your souls were in my souls stead; yet Job did not wish it for their hurt, but that he might have an opportunity to show how much he would labour to be their Servant in Love, to do them good.
So then, if vve read the vvords as a wish, O that your soules were in my soules stead; yet Job did not wish it for their hurt, but that he might have an opportunity to shew how much hee would labour to bee their Servant in Love, to doe them good.
Hence Note.
A good man doth not wish ill to those who have rewarded him with evil upon any other terms, then a discovery of his own goodness. 'Tis sin to wish that they who are in a comfortable condition, might fall into our misery, though they have been miserable comforters to us in our misery. We may not (in this case) wish pain or sorrow to any sort of men, except upon one of these two considerations.
A good man doth not wish ill to those who have rewarded him with evill upon any other termes, then a discovery of his owne goodnesse. 'Tis sin to wish that they who are in a comfortable condition, might fall into our misery, though they have been miserable comforters to us in our misery. We may not (in this case) wish paine or sorrow to any sort of men, except upon one of these two considerations.