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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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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.
Faith makes all evill good to us, and all good better; unbeleife makes all good evill to us, and all evill worse. Faith (like the Horse, Job 39.19.) laughs at the shaking of the Speare; unbeleife trembles at the shaking of a leafe. Faith findes food in Famine, and a Table in the Wildernesse. In greatest dangers, faith answers, I have a great God; when outward strength is broken, and all lyes a bleeding, faith answers, The promises are strong still, they have not lost a ⟨p. 106⟩drop of blood, nor have they a skarre upon them. When God himselfe apreares angry, faith answers, I know how to please him, and I can goe to one in whom he is, and will be wel-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 darknesse of darknesse is this, Not to beleeve, that we shall returne out of darknesse.