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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
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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 (2 Thes. 1.10.) He now comes sometimes with such afflictions to his Saints, as easily cause them who beleeve much more those who beleeve not to admire. Thou hast wonderfully desolated, or wasted, All my company.
1All my [company] The word which we translate Company, is rendered, The joints or members of the body by the Vulgar Latin, Thou hast reduced all my members to nothing: As if he had said, Thou hast loosened the whole compages, or structure of my bones and body, thou hast untied, or cut asunder all the ligaments that held me together. This translation is but an allusion; because the members of the natural body are like a company of men joined together in a civill or spiritual body, which is therefore commonly called a Corporation. Some contend much for this sense, Thou hast made desolate all the members