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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 25
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That God proportions the punishment of man unto his sin: There is a twofold proportionating of punishment to sin.
First, In the quality, or manner of it. Secondly, In the quantity, or degree of it.
The Justice of God is visible in both, according to the exact rules of retaliation: As I have done, so the Lord hath requited me, said Adonibezek (Judg. 1.) He was punished in the same manner that he had sinned, and so have many others. But all shall be punished in the same degree that they have sinned. If sin be great, so shall the punishment of it be. When the iniquity of the Amorite was full, he had his fill of wrath. When God himself was pressed with the sin of Israel, as a Cart with Sheaves: then he laid on load in judgement. If any wonder why the wicked man should be hurried, troubled, vexed, why he travelleth in pain all his days; he may cease to wonder, when he reads, that the wicked man stretcheth out his hand against God. Is it any wonder God should show himself an Enemy to them, who practice the Enemy against him? Or that they should be highest in suffering, who have been highest in sin? The Prophet Amos reproves and complains of those, who made the Ephah small, and the Shekel great (Chap. 8.5.) That is, who abated the measure, and enhanced, ⟨p. 132⟩or raised the price of their commodities: But if man make the Ephah, or measure of his sin small, God will not make the Shekel of his punishment great. The wages which the Justice of God pays the sinner, shall not be a penny more then his sinning work hath deserved.
The Justice of God is visible in both, according to the exact rules of retaliation: As I have done, so the Lord hath requited me, sayd Adonibezek (