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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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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.
Further, by a Synecdoche, the Sword is taken for all manner of evil and trouble;1 whatsoever hurts or afflicts is comprehended under the notion of a Sword (Luke 1.35,) Old Simeon tells the holy Virgin in his song, Also a Sword shall pass through thy soul; his meaning is not, that she should be cut off in War, by the hand of the Soldier, or in peace, by the sentence of the Judge, but that sore troubles and afflictions like a sharp Sword should pierce her soul.
Further, by a Synechdoche, the Sword is taken for all manner of evill and trouble;