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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 22
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It is the comfort of a man that feareth God, and obeyeth the voice of his Servants, that while he walketh in darkness and hath no light, he is bid to trust in the name of the Lord, and to stay upon his God (Isa. 50.10.) But while a man that doth not fear God, walks in darkness and hath no light, his misery is, that he can neither trust in God till light comes, nor that light will ever come. How happy are the righteous, to whom light ariseth in darkness? How unhappy are the wicked, who being in darkness, conclude that the light will never arise.
It is the comfort of a man that feareth God, and obeyeth the voyce of his Servants, that while he walketh in darknesse and hath no light, he is bid to trust in the name of the Lord, and to stay upon his God (Isa. 50.10.) But while a man that doth not feare God, walkes in darknesse and hath no light, his misery is, that he can neither trust in God till light comes, nor that light will ever come. How happy are the righteous, to whom light ariseth in darknesse? How unhappy are the wicked, who being in darknesse, conclude that the light will never arise.
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil to us, and all evil worse. Faith (like the Horse, Job 39.19.) laughs at the shaking of the Spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf. Faith finds food in Famine, and a Table in the Wilderness. In greatest dangers, faith answers, I have a great God; when outward strength is broken, and all lies a bleeding, faith answers, The promises are strong still, they have not lost a ⟨p. 106⟩drop of blood, nor have they a scar upon them. When God himself appears angry, faith answers, I know how to please him, and I can go to one in whom he is, and will be well-pleased for ever. Thus faith pulls out the sting of trouble, draws out the gall and wormwood of every affliction. But where faith is wanting, every affliction is full of gall and wormwood, and every trouble vexeth with a double sting. It stings such, as it is a trouble, and it stings them more, as they see no comfort in, nor way out of trouble. The darkness of darkness is this, Not to believe, that we shall return out of darkness.