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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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He hath shaken me in pieces, and yet he hath not done with me; as the Lord broke and shook me asunder when I was whole, so he wounds me, now I am broken: If he can but find enough of me left together to make a mark of, I shall be sure to feel his Arrows.
He hath shaken me in peices, and yet he hath not done with me; as the Lord broke and shooke me asunder when I was whole, so he wounds me, now I am broken: If he can but finde enough of me left together to make a mark of, I shall be sure to feele his Arrows.
And set me up for his mark.
Job was cast down by affliction, and yet he was set up to receive more affliction: 'Tis a Proverbial speech,1 signifying that a man is made the common receipt, or subject of misery. A Mark is purposely set up to receive Arrows, Darts, or Bullets shot at it; so that for a man to be set up as a mark, is to stand as a common object, upon which all calamities centre themselves; what Job here complains of, he had expostulated with God about (Chap. 7.20.) Wherefore hast thou set me up as a mark, so that I am a burden to my self? I shall speak the less to it here, having spoken to it there already.
Job was cast downe by affliction, and yet he was set up to receive more affliction: 'Tis a Proverbiall speech,1 signifying that a man is made the common receit, or subject of misery. A Mark is purposely set up to receive Arrows, Darts, or Bullets shot at it; so that for a man to be set up as a mark, is to stand as a common object, upon which all calamities center themselves; what Job here complaines of, he had expostulated with God about (Chap. 7.20.) Wherefore hast thou set me up as a marke, so that I am a burden to my selfe? I shall speake the lesse to it here, having spoken to it there already.