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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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Observe.
Secondly, God seems to take pleasure in afflicting his people.
Secondly, God seemes to take pleasure in afflicting his people.
This also contributes to the proof of the general Observation before given: For the more pleasure any one takes in afflicting, the more severity he shows in afflicting. A Father chastiseth his Child with tears in his eyes; every stroke which a wise Father gives his Child, is as a wound to himself, and this abates the smart of the blow; but for Fathers to do it as the Apostle speaks (Heb. 12.) For their pleasure, or when it pleaseth a Father (in that sense) to do it, this increaseth the smart. The sufferer feels most pain when it is a pleasure to another to make him suffer. Now, what is shooting at a mark? No man shoots at a mark for toil, to make a labour, and a business of it, but men shoot at a mark for their recreation, and pleasure.
This also contributes to the proofe of the generall Observation before given: For the more pleasure any one takes in afflicting, the more severity he shewes in afflicting. A Father chastiseth his Childe with teares in his eyes; every stroake vvhich a vvise Father gives his Childe, is as a wound to himselfe, and this abates the smart of the blow; but for Fathers to doe it as the Apostle speakes (Heb. 12.) For their pleasure, or vvhen it pleaseth a Father (in that sense) to doe it, this encreaseth the smart. The sufferer feeles most paine vvhen it is a pleasure to another to make him suffer. Now, vvhat is shooting at a mark? No man shoots at a marke for toyle, to make a labour, and a businesse of it, but men shoot at a mark for their recreation, and pleasure.