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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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The same Original word is not used in both places, though the sense be the same: There Job speaks in a Paraphrase, Thou hast set me opposite, or over against thee: 1Here he uses a single term, which notes a mark, strictly taken; for it comes from a root which signifies to observe; because the mark, or white, is diligently observed by him that shoots; the Archer keeps his eye upon the mark, that he may send his Arrow to the mark. A mark is that to the eye in shooting, which the end is to the mind of man in all his ways of acting; and therefore our English word Scope from the Greek ([Greek or Hebrew]) which properly signifies an Archers mark, is used figuratively to signify the end which we design to our selves in every undertaking. And hence the eye with which we take aim, is put for the end (Matth. 6.22.) If thine eye be single, the whole body is light; that is, if the end, or the thing that thou aimest at be just and right, all thy actions will be right too: Every man is regulated by his end, all he doth, looks that way; therefore if thy end and aim be honest and sincere, all thy ways and works will be such. So then, as the end is the mark of the mind, so a mark is the end of the eye; it directs all unto it. And while Job saith, He hath set me up as a mark, his meaning is, I am the Butt or White, at which the Lord aims all his Arrows, he empties his Quiver at my breast. 2So the Church cries out (Lam. 3.12, 13.) He hath bent his bow, he hath set me as a mark for the Arrow; he hath caused the Arrows of his Quiver to enter into my reins: The Hebrew is, He hath caused the Sons of his Quiver to enter into my reins. Arrows are the Sons of the Quiver: Sons are called Arrows (Psal. 127.4, 5.) ⟨p. 294⟩As Arrows in the hand of the mighty, so are the Children of the youth, blessed is the man that hath his Quiver full of them. Now as Sons are compared to Arrows in a Quiver, so Arrows are compared to Sons, because as Sons are together in their Fathers house, so are Arrows in the Quiver. Christ is described by old Simeon, as a mark set up to shoot at (