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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 13
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Sixthly, His Wife was an Archer, or an Archeress, she shot terrible Arrows, evil and bitter words.
Sixthly, His Wife was an Archer, or an Archeresse, she shot terrible Arrows, evill and bitter words.
Seventhly, His Friends were Archers, they shot reproofs, and uncomfortable comforts; they pierced him with their sallies, and the very means that they used to heal him, grieved him more.
Seventhly, His Freinds were Archers, they shot reproofes, and uncomfortable comforts; they peirced him with their salyes, and the very meanes that they used to heal him, grieved him more.
All these shot at him, he must needs have many hurts, who was compassed about with so many Archers; David felt the anguish of these Arrows (Psal. 38, 1.) O Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure: For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore: David was full of Arrows, what those Arrows were, is not determined in the Text. One of the Ancients saith, They were the threatenings of God, with which his conscience was wounded for sin, as for his body and outward estate, they were in a whole skin; 'tis true, judgements or wrath threatened, ⟨p. 298⟩wound the spirit deeper then judgements or wrath executed wound the outward man; and as the whole word of God, so that part of it especially which consists of threatenings, is as the Apostle speaks (Heb. 4.12.) Quick and powerful, and sharper then any two-edged Sword, piercing, even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit, &c. Yet I rather conceive, that Davids Arrows were bodily troubles or diseases, already inflicted, the immediate cause of which was the anger of God, and the cause of that was his own sin, both which are expressed at the third Verse, There is no soundness in my flesh, because of thine anger, neither is there any rest in my bones, because of my sin: When sin stirs up the anger of God, the anger of God can quickly send his Arrows abroad; nor is there any thing in this World so near unto us, but he can make an Arrow, or an Archer of it; His Archers compass me round.