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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 21
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But when the conscience of a wicked man is once enlightened, softened, and awakened, he cannot but have these dreadful sounds, which will neither give nor let him receive any rest. Conscience will awake at last, and speak terrible things, conscience will be a Boanerges, a terrible Preacher, thundering out, not only a chiding reproof, but a sentence of condemnation, and then the wicked will even gnash their teeth, because conscience did no sooner use its teeth, they will gnaw their tongues for sorrow, because conscience had no tongue to speak, or they no ears to hear what it spake, till it was too late: A dreadful sound is in his ear.
But when the conscience of a wicked man is once enlightned, softned, and awakned, he cannot but have these dreadfull sounds, which will neither give nor let him receive any rest. Conscience will awake at last, and speak terrible things, conscience will be a Bounnerges, a terrible Preacher, thundring out, not only a chiding reproofe, but a sentence of condemnation, and then the wicked will even gnash their teeth, because conscience did no sooner use its teeth, they will gnaw their tongues for sorrow, because conscience had no tongue to speak, or they no eares to heare what it spake, till it was too late: A dreadfull sound is in his eare.
In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
1The Hebrew is, In peace the destroyer shall come upon him. Peace ⟨p. 101⟩is so near allied, and so great a friend to prosperity, that one word may well serve both. The wicked mans destroyer shall be to him like Joab to Abner, and Amasa, shedding the blood of War in Peace, and putting that blood upon the Girdle about his loins, &c.