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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 8
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.
First, Of the soul, or inward man. Secondly, Of the body, or outward man.
First, Of the soule, or inward man. Secondly, Of the body, or outward man.
When the Jews lusted in the Wilderness, and called for flesh to satisfy the flesh: God (saith the Text, Psal. 106.15.) gave them their request, but sent leanness into their soul. The soul in a proper sense, is neither fat nor lean, and therefore the soul in this place of the Psalm, must be taken improperly, or else the leanness of it must. The soul is put improperly for the body, or for the whole man, and so, he sent leanness into their souls, is, the curse of God caused them to pine secretly, or he slew the fattest of them (openly) and smote down the chosen men in Israel: So this leanness is expounded (Psal. 78.31.) as if he had said, God made them a thin and a lean company before he had done with them. Yet besides this (I conceive) the Text doth intend some spiritual judgement; and then the soul is taken in a proper sense, but leanness in an improper sense: and so, he sent leanness into their souls, is, while they inordinately desired meat for their bodies, God withheld the ordinary food of their souls: He did not administer his grace and holy spirit (which are the fatteners of the soul) while they were thus hungry after dainties for the flesh.
When the Jewes lusted in the Wildernesse, and called for flesh to satisfie the flesh: God (saith the Text, Psal. 106.15.) gave them their request, but sent leannesse into their soule. The soule in a proper sense, is neither fat nor leane, and therefore the soule in this place of the Psalme, must be taken improperly, or else the leannesse of it must. The soule is put improperly for the body, or for the whole man, and so, he sent leannesse into their soules, is, the curse of God caused them to pine secretly, or he slew the fattest of them (openly) and smote downe the chosen men in Israel: So this leannesse is expounded (