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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 15 › Verse 11
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Secondly, Observe:
Consolations rightly administered by men, are the consolations of God: While man speaks, God commands; Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, speak comfortably to Jerusalem, tell her that her warfare is accomplished, and her sin pardoned (Isa. 40.1.) As all the counsels, reproofs, and Doctrines which the Ministers of Christ dispense according to the form of wholesome words delivered either in the Law or Gospel, are the counsels, instructions, reproofs and Doctrines of God; so also are their consolations. And that's the reason why God takes it so ill at the hands of men, when his Messengers, who bring either instruction, or consolation, are refused; because himself is refused when they are, and his consolations are disesteemed when theirs are.
Consolations rightly administred by men, are the consolations of God: While man speakes, God commands; Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, speake comfortably to Jerusalem, tell her that her warfare is accomplished, and her sin pardoned (Isa. 40.1.) As all the counsells, reproofes, and Doctrines which the Ministers of Christ dispense according to the forme of wholesome words delivered either in the Law or Gospel, are the counsels, instructions, reproofs and Doctrins of God; so also are their consolations. And thats the reason why God takes it so ill at the hands of men, when his Messengers, who bring either instruction, or consolation, are refused; because himselfe is refused when they are, and his consolations are disesteemed when theirs are.
Thirdly, Observe: