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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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First, Not to punish at all: thus God sometimes spares his own people, as a Father spares his Son that serveth him (Mal. 3.17.) Though they fail, yet he passeth it by, and doth not reckon with them for it. The Lord represented himself to Amos, forming Grass-hoppers, which either in kind, or in a figure (shadowing the Assyrians) threatened to devour the Land; this Vision put the Prophet upon that earnest prayer, O Lord God forgive, by whom shall Jacob arise for he is small? The Lord repented for this, it shall not be saith the Lord (Amos 7.1, 2, 3.) Here was sparing mercy, and this is repeated a second time (Vers. 6.) yet in the third Vision of a Plumb line (by which God was noted, taking exact notice of all the unevenness and crookedness of that people in that Vision, I say) as the Prophet suspended prayer, so the Lord being resolved, no longer to suspend their punishment, saith, I will not pass by them again any more: that is, I will spare them no more which is again repeated (Chap. 8.2.) where by a Basket of Summer ⟨p. 302⟩fruit, the Lord showed their ripeness in sin, and his readiness to punish, and not to spare.
First, Not to punish at all: thus God sometimes spares his owne people, as a Father spares his Son that serveth him (Mal. 3.17.) Though they faile, yet he passeth it by, and doth not reckon with them for it. The Lord represented himselfe to Amos, forming Grasse-hoppers, which eyther in kinde, or in a figure (shaddowing the Assyrians) threatned to devoure the Land; this Vision put the Prophet upon that earnest prayer, O Lord God forgive, by whom shall Jacob arise for he is small? The Lord repented for this, it shall not be saith the Lord (Amos 7.1, 2, 3.) Here was sparing mercy, and this is repeated a second time (Vers. 6.) yet in the third Vision of a Plumbe line (by which God was noted, taking exact notice of all the unevennesse and crookednesse of that people in that Vision, I say) as the Prophet suspended prayer, so the Lord being resolved, no longer to suspend their punishment, saith, I will not passe by them againe any more: that is, I will spare them no more which is againe repeated (Chap. 8.2.) where by a Basket of Summer