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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 22
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.
First, literally for That weapon of War, and by a Synecdoche the Sword is put for all weapons of War; as also by a Metonymy, for War it self: When the Sword is threatened in Scripture, War is threatened.
First, litterally for That weapon of Warr, and by a Synechdoche the Sword is put for all weapons of Warr; as also by a Metonymie, for Warr it selfe: When the Sword is threatned in Scripture, Warr is threatned.
Secondly, The Sword is taken for the power of the Magistrate, who bears not the Sword in vain: Christ is described as a King armed with his Sword. (Isa. 11.4.) By the Sword (that is with the Word) of his mouth he will slay the wicked: 1Christ will pronounce a sentence of condemnation, and deliver them up to execution: Thus the Judge slays the Malefactor by the sword of his mouth.
Secondly, The Sword is taken for the power of the Magistrate, who beares not the Sword in vaine: Christ is described as a King armed with his Sword. (Isa. 11.4.) By the Sword (that is with the Word) of his mouth he will slay the wicked: 1Christ will pronounce a sentence of condemnation, and deliver them up to execution: Thus the Judge slayes the Malefactor by the sword of his mouth.
- 1Nempe sua sententia tradens eum justitiae ministro.