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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 23
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Observe hence, first.
To want and wander about for bread, is a sore affliction; Such an affliction, as David professeth he never observed the righteous mans seed fallen into (Psal. 37.25.) I have been young, and now am old, yet never saw I the righteous forsaken, nor their seed begging their bread: The righteous are often troubled, yet never ⟨p. 112⟩forsaken, or if forsaken of men, yet not of God; when all men, even godly men, forsook Paul, yet God did not: The Lord (saith he) stood by me, (2 Tim. 4.16, 17.) And though a righteous man may be brought to beg, yet his seed (that is, his whole posterity) is not; or if we take seed for a single person, to see him beg for bread is very rare; so rare it was in those times, that David had not observed it; for he speaks not of that which cannot be, but of that which is seldom or never seen to be. 'Tis a mercy to be denied superfluities, but it is an extreme misery to be denied necessaries. The Jews had poor amongst them,1 but the Law made such provision, that they had no Beggars or wanderers for bread. (Deut. 15.) He is not a Beggar that asks bread upon a pinch (for so did David himself, more then once) but he that makes a trade of it.
To want and wander about for bread, is a sore affliction; Such an affliction, as David professeth he never observed the rightous mans seed fallen into (Psal. 37.25.) I have been young, and now am old, yet never saw I the righteous forsaken, nor their seed begging their bread: The righteous are often troubled, yet never ⟨p. 112⟩