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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 16
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Hence Observe.
First, They are most sensible of the hand of God, who are most submissive to it.
As Jobs afflictions were great, so was his sorrow, and so was his submission: Sorrow is not contrary to patience; Job was the most patient, and the most sorrowful man in the World. There is an immoderate sorrow inconsistent with patience, but great sorrow is not only consistent with patience, but an argument of it; and unless we have some sorrow, we are not patient at all: how can he be called patient, who either feels not, or slights his affliction. It is as ill a symptom of a diseased soul to be unsensible of judgements, as to be unsensible of mercies. Unless we feel the rod, we cannot hear the voice of the rod, nor receive instruction by it. To be as a Trunk, or a Stone, under correction, is not to be patient under it, but to despise it: Humble your selves under the mighty hand of God, is the advice of the spirit, by the Apostle (1 Pet. 5.6.) As God humbles us for sin, or for the trial of grace, so they who have grace receive power to humble themselves; and to humble our selves, is not only an act, but an high act of grace; both the grace of God toward us, and the graces of God in us are exalted when we are low in our own eyes.
As Jobs afflictions were great, so was his sorrowe, and so was his submission: Sorrow is not contrary to patience; Job was the most pati•nt, and the most sorrowfull man in the World. There is an immoderate sorrow inconsistent with patience, but great sorrow is not onely consistent with patience, but an argument of it; and unlesse we have some sorrow, we are not patient at all: how can he be called patient, who either feeles not, or slights his affliction. It is as ill a symptome of a diseased soule to be unsensible of judgements, as to be unsensible of mercies. Unlesse wee feele the rod, wee cannot heare the voice of the rod, nor receive instruction by it. To be as a Trunk, or a Stone, under correction, is not to be patient under it, but to despise it: Humble your selves under the mighty hand of God, is the advice of the spirit, by the Apostle (