A35473:1174
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 16 › Verse 5
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.
Job in this Text was far from professing a• readiness to assuage the grief of his unkind, or enemy-like Friends, upon hope that God would increase their sorrow.
Job in this Text was farr from professing a• readinesse to asswage the griefe of his unkinde, or enemy-like Freinds, upon hope that God would encrease their sorrow.
Secondly, Observe.
Words duly spoken and applied, are of great power.
Words duly spoken and applyed, are of great power.
How forcible are right words? Is Jobs question (Chap. 6.25.) ⟨p. 237⟩He doth not there answer his question, nor tell us how forcible they are, but here he doth. They are of such force, that they strengthen weak souls, and assuage the most swelling floods of sorrow.