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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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I shall only lay in the consideration of these four glosses from the literal sense of the word, to a further making out of the first general Observation, That God often deals very severely in outward, or present dispensations, with many of his dearest Servants: He doth that which they may call cleaving of the reins, and that, in the easiest of the four senses, is a very severe dispensation; much more (which we may suppose) when the pain of all four meets in one man; as doubtless they did in Job; He cleaveth my reins asunder.
I shall onely lay in the consideration of these foure glosses from the literall sense of the word, to a further making out of the first generall Observation, That God often deales very severely in outward, or present dispensations, with many of his dearest Servants: He doth that which they may call cleaving of the reines, and that, in the easiest of the foure senses, is a very severe dispensation; much more (which wee may suppose) when the paine of all foure meets in one man; as doubtlesse they did in Job; He cleaveth my reines asunder.
And doth not spare.
1He that doth not spare, useth the utmost extremity, and shows no pity or Indulgence: to spare, is both an act, and one of the kinds of mercy: Sparing is opposed to severity, it is a doing less against another then we may, and that two ways.
1He that doth not spare, useth the utmost extreamity, and shewes no pitty or Indulgence: to spare, is both an act, and one of the kinds of mercy: Sparing is opposed to severity, it is a doing lesse against another then we may, and that two wayes.