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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 company of Children, and Friends, is a very great mercy.
The company of Children, and Freinds, is a very great mercy.
Heman complains much when he wanted this mercy, Lover and Friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness. Job makes, as a more particular, so a more pathetical enumeration of this loss (Chap. 19.13, 14.) To be desolate in so great an affliction, that it is often put for all afflictions; and to be desolate of company, is the worst ⟨p. 252⟩desolateness. When David had said, I am desolate and afflicted, he presently adds, The sorrows of my heart are enlarged (Psal. 25.16, 17.) A man may be much afflicted, and yet not desolate, but a man cannot beat all desolate, but he must be extremely afflicted. When the Prophet would put all the miseries of the Jews into one word, he puts it into this (Isa. 1.7.) Your Country is desolate, your Land strangers shall devour it in your presence: And when a Land is devoured of strangers, either it is made desolate of its own company, or its own company is made desolate. Babylon boasts (Revel. 18.7.) I sit a Queen, and am no widow; that is, as I have power, so I have resort and company enough, I am not desolate: The Apostle puts these two together, Widow-hood, and Desolateness (1 Tim. 5.5.) Now, she that is a widow and desolate, &c. So that when Babylon saith, I am no widow, her meaning is, I am not desolate; and hence the punishment of Babylon is threatened in this language (Revel. 17.16.) The ten horns which thou sawest upon the Beast, these shall hate the Whore, and make her desolate, &c.