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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 15 › Verse 21
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.
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. 1 Kings 2.5.
1The Hebrew is, In peace the destroyer shall come upon him. Peace ⟨p. 101⟩is so neer allyed, and so great a freind 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 Warr in Peace, and putting that blood upon the Girdle about his loynes, &c. 1 Kings 2.5.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] In pa•e.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 In pa•e.
But some may demand, How doth this suite with the former Verse? Where Eliphaz told us, that A wicked man travels in pain all his days: How is he in prosperity, if he travels all his days in pain? I answer, The denomination is given from the greatest part of a wicked mans life, and that is trouble and pain. Or secondly, if an instance can be given of any wicked man, that hath had more good days then evil, or that hath had no ill days at all, in regard of any outward trouble and pain, then we may reconcile the Text thus; his prosperity is beside his state, yea,