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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 5
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Lastly, Whereas Job speaks peremptorily, as if he saw the effect, or were assured of it aforehand, I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should assuage your grief: Job knew that the success of all his counsels depended upon the concurrence and blessing of God; yet thus he speaks.
Lastly, Whereas Job speakes peremptorily, as if he saw the effect, or were assured of it aforehand, I would strengthen you with my mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage your greife: Job knew that the successe of all his counsells depended upon the concurrence and blessing of God; yet thus he speakes.
Hence Note.
A man may say he hath done that, for the doing of which he hath used suitable and faithful endeavours, whether the thing be done or no: The Lord saith to Jerusalem by the Prophet Ezekiel ⟨p. 238⟩(Chap. 24.13.) Because I have purged thee, and thou wast not purged. Now as God takes it upon him, that he had purged them, though they were not purged, because he gave them so many means and helps for their purging; so any man in his proportion, may take it upon him, that he hath strengthened their faith, abated their grief, yea and saved their souls, among, and towards whom he hath diligently used those means appointed by God for the attaining of those great and noble ends, though possibly those ends be not attained. God himself reckons thus of all the labours of his faithful servants, they shall be rewarded as having done that which they have been doing with their hearts, hands, and tongues, though they see little fruit of either. Then I said, I have laboured in vain (Isa. 49.4.) but though it was in vain to those for whom he laboured, that is, they got no good by it, yet it was not in vain to him who laboured, he got much good by it; as it follows in the same Verse, Surely my judgement is with the Lord, and my work (or my reward, one word signifies both reward and work, to show that these can never be separated, my work, saith he) is with my God; and Vers. 5. Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength.