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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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Again, 'tis prophesied of wicked men (Isa. 8.21.) They shall pass through it hardly bestead and hungry, and it shall come to pass, when they shall be hungry, that they shall fret themselves, and curse their King and their God, and look upward: When an unbeliever hath nothing to eat, he eats himself. His own fretting wastes him more then his hunger. He then looks upward, not as submitting himself to God in his hunger, not as depending upon God, for the satisfying of his hunger: In which sense it is said (Psal. 145.15, 16.) The eyes of all wait upon thee, or (as we put in the Margin) look unto thee, and thou givest them their meat in due season, thou openest thine hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. A wicked man cannot look upward, thus, when he is hungry, he cannot look up and pray, he cannot look up and trust in God; but he looks upward to curse the God of Heaven in his heart, if not with his tongue; he looks upward, because he is vexed with all that is done below; he looks upward, not because he hath any pleasant sights in Heaven,1 but because he is displeased with all he sees on Earth.
Againe, 'tis prophesied of wicked men (Isa. 8.21.) They shall passe through it hardly bestead and hungry, and it shall come to passe, when they shall be hungry, that they shall fret themselves, and curse their King and their God, and looke upward: When an unbeleever hath nothing to eate, he eates himselfe. His owne fretting wasts him more then his hunger. He then looks upward, not as submitting himselfe to God in his hunger, not as depending upon God, for the satisfying of his hunger: In which sense it is sayd (Psal. 145.15, 16.) The eyes of all waite upon thee, or (as we put in the Margin) looke unto thee, and thou givest them their meate in due season, thou openest thine hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. A wicked man cannot look upward, thus, when he is hungry, he cannot look up and pray, he cannot look up and trust in God; but he looks upward to curse the God of Heaven in his heart, if not with his tongue; he looks upward, because he is vext with all that is done below; he looks upward, not because he hath any pleasant sights in Heaven,