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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 16
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The word which we translate abominable, notes that which is most abhorring to the nature of man; that which is not only so nauseous that the stomach cannot digest it, but so base that the mind is burdened to think of it; yea the word imports that which is rejected by all the senses, abominably rejected; that which the eye cannot endure to look upon, ⟨p. 66⟩that which the ear cannot endure to hear of, that which is a stink in the nostrils, and which the hand will not touch: Such an abominable thing the word bears, and such is man; God loathes him, and is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity, much more a lump of iniquity; he is as a stink in the nostrils of God, nor will he touch him (for any thing in him) unless with a hand of justice to destroy him.
The word which we translate abominable, notes that which is most abhorring to the nature of man; that which is not onely so nauseous that the stomack cannot digest it, but so base that the mind is burdened to thinke of it; yea the word imports that which is rejected by all the senses, abominably rejected; that which the eye cannot endure to looke upon, ⟨p. 66⟩that which the eare cannot indure to heare of, that which is a stink in the nostrils, and which the hand will not touch: Such an abominable thing the word beares, and such is man; God loathes him, and is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity, much more a lumpe of iniquity; he is as a stink in the nostrills of God, nor will he touch him (for any thing in him) unlesse with a hand of justice to destroy him.
1Further, some explain abominable by that of the Apostle (1 Cor. 16.26.) If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha: that is, let all abominate, and cast him out of their society: When the Lord would show the worst thought that he had of the best services of the Jews, he tells them, Incense is an abomination to me; and when the Psalmist would convince us how the people of Israel had defiled themselves with their own works, and polluted the Land with blood, he gives it in the word of this Text, Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, in so much that he abhorred his own inheritance (