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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 7
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.
The word Shamam, signifies to waste, and destroy, and that not by an ordinary destruction, but so to destroy, as works the beholders into amazement and wonder: This word signifies both to wonder, and to destroy; because great destructions cause wonder.
The word Shamam, signifies to waste, and destroy, and that not by an ordinary destruction, but so to destroy, as workes the beholders into amazement and wonder: This word signifes both to wonder, and to destroy; because great destructions cause wonder.
Thou hast made desolate all my company: Thou hast made such a desolation among them, that all who are about me lift up their hands (as we say) and bless themselves, admiring to see this day. God brought such a desolation upon Jerusalem, as set the World a wondering (Lam. 4.12.) The Kings of the Earth, and all the Inhabitants of the World would not have believed, that the Adversary and the Enemy should not have entered into the Gates of Jerusalem: Christ will come (at last with such mercies) to be glorified in his Saints, as will cause him to be admired in all them that believe (2 Thes. 1.10.) He now comes sometimes with such afflictions to his Saints, as easily cause them who believe much more those who believe not to admire. Thou hast wonderfully desolated, or wasted, All my company.
Thou hast made desolate all my company: Thou hast made such a desolation among them, that all who are about me lift up their hands (as we say) and blesse themselves, admiring to see this day. God brought such a desolation upon Jerusalem, as set the World a wondering (Lam. 4.12.) The Kings of the Earth, and all the Inhabitants of the World would not have beleeved, that the Adversary and the Enemy should not have entered into the Gates of Jerusalem: Christ will come (at last with such mercies) to be glorified in his Saints, as will cause him to be admired in all them that beleeve (