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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 12
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First, They bear an allusion to Wrestlers, who take one another by the neck, or collar; he that is the strongest, not only takes his Antagonist by the neck, but shakes him, as if he would shake him to pieces. God wrestled with the Patriarch Jacob literally and corporally (though the greatest labour and stress of Jacobs wrestling was spiritual and internal) And when he saw that he prevailed not (Jacob prevailed with God for so much strength, that now God could not (according ⟨p. 291⟩to that dispensation) prevail against Jacob, yet) he touched the hollow of Jacobs thigh, and made him halt. God wrestled with Job, not corporally, yet in corporal things, the stress also of his wrestling was spiritual, and he prevailed with God, and over Satan; yet God was pleased not only, for the present, to touch a joint, and make him halt, but even to shake every joint and limb to pieces.
First, They beare an allusion to Wrestlers, who take one another by the neck, or collar; he that is the strongest, not onely takes his Antagonist by the neck, but shakes him, as if he would shake him to pieces. God wrestled with the Patriarch Jacob literally and corporally (though the greatest labour and stresse of Jacobs wrestling was spirituall and internall) And when he saw that he prevailed not (Jacob prevailed with God for so much strength, that now God could not (according ⟨p. 291⟩to that dispensation) prevaile against Jacob, yet) he touched the hollow of Jacobs thigh, and made him halt. God wrestled with Job, not corporally, yet in corporall things, the stresse also of his wrestling was spirituall, and he prevailed with God, and over Satan; yet God was pleased not only, for the present, to touch a joynt, and make him halt, but even to shake every joynt and limbe to peices.
Secondly, It is an allusion to Sergeants or Bailiffs, that are sent to arest men for debt, or for their evil deeds: This sort of men are boisterous enough, they having power will not forbear to lay hold on Persons obnoxious, and take them by the neck, when they attach them. We have that usage expressed (