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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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Yet God himself said at the first when man was created, It is not good for man to be alone: There was no moral evil in that aloneness (for when God spake this word, there was no such evil in the visible World) but God called it evil, because it was so inconvenient for the civill well-being and inconsistent with the natural propagation of man. And therefore as in reference to both these evils, God said with his own mouth, It is not good for man to be alone; so in reference to the former of the two, God said by Solomon, Two is better then one, and woe to him that is alone (Eccles. 4.9, 10.) Job puts his aloneness among his woes, Thou hast made desolate all my company.
Yet God himselfe sayd at the first when man was created, It is not good for man to be alone: There was no morall evill in that alonenesse (for when God spake this word, there was no such evill in the visible World) but God called it evill, because it was so inconvenient for the civill well-being and inconsistent with the naturall propagation of man. And therefore as in reference to both these evils, God sayd with his own mouth, It is not good for man to be alone; so in reference to the former of the two, God sayd by Solomon, Two is better then one, and woe to him that is alone (Eccles. 4.9, 10.) Job puts his alonenesse among his woes, Thou hast made desolate all my company.
But it may be said, Had Job no company? Were not his Friends about him? Did not these three come to mourn with him, and to comfort him? And had they not been in discourse with him all this while?
But it may be said, Had Job no company? Were not his Freinds about him? Did not these three come to mourn with him, and to comfort him? And had they not been in discourse with him all this while?