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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 20
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.
His external pain is of two sorts:
His externall paine is of two sorts:
First, Such as God lays upon him, or casts him into; for though many are the afflictions of the righteous, from the hand of God, yet the righteous have not all the afflictions, wicked men have some: They are not only beaten with scourges, but smitten with scorpions; God rains down upon them snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest; this is the portion of many of their cups, even in this life.
First, Such as God layes upon him, or casts him into; for though many are the afflictions of the righteous, from the hand of God, yet the righteous have not all the afflictions, wicked men have some: They are not onely beaten with scourges, but smitten with scorpions; God raines downe upon them snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest; this is the portion of many of their cups, even in this life.
Secondly, Such as a wicked man brings upon himself; Master Broughtons reading aims at these pains. The wicked kills himself all his days. A wicked man is often very active, sometimes extremely malicious against others, so malicious that he murders them; and yet it may truly be said he only kills himself all his days. The self-love of a wicked man destroys him, and his very earnestness to avoid trouble, tumbles him into it: And this is clear, if we consider either the way which a wicked man takes, or the end which usually he comes unto; his way is a very sad way: A godly man is described (Psal. 118.2.) Eating the labour of his hands; that is, the very work which he doth, feeds him; and before he hath any reward for his work, he finds a reward in his ⟨p. 89⟩