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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 30
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The Lord can make any affliction a consumption to the most beautiful branches of a sinful people, or person: Whatsoever he useth as an instrument of his indignation, is his flame: In this sense, the very waters which drowned the old World, were the fire and flame of God: He can by poverty, as by a flame, consume and dry up riches; by disgrace, as by a flame, consume and dry up honour; by sickness, as by a flame, consume ⟨p. 164⟩and dry up health; God hath special flames for every special branch, nothing can continue to do us good, when God gives Warrant or Commission to any of his flames to scorch and consume it, The flame shall burn up his branch.
The Lord can make any affliction a consumption to the most beautifull branches of a sinfull people, or person: Whatsoever he useth as an instrument of his indignation, is his flame: In this sense, the very waters which drowned the old World, were the fire and flame of God: He can by poverty, as by a flame, consume and dry up riches; by disgrace, as by a flame, consume and dry up honour; by sicknesse, as by a flame, consume ⟨p. 164⟩and dry up health; God hath speciall flames for every speciall branch, nothing can continue to doe us good, when God gives Warrant or Commission to any of his flames to scorch and consume it, The flame shall burne up his branch.
And by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.
And by the breath of his mouth shall he goe away.
We have the flame of God in the former clause, and the breath of his mouth in this: Some Interpreters conceive that Eliphaz mentions these two, The flame, and the breath, purposely to put Job in mind, what God had done to him; for we read in the first Chapter of this Book, of the flame of God, a fire from Heaven consuming that branch, his flocks of Sheep, and a breath from God, namely, a mighty strong wind, destroying a more precious branch, his flock of Children: Eliphaz clothes this discourse in such terms as might easily remind and represent to Job, what God had done to him, in the day of his calamity.