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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 15 › Verse 31
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Let not him that is deceived.
The Original word signifies, either the turning of the foot, or the turning of the heart, or both out of the way (Psal. 119.176.1) I have gone astray, like a lost Sheep: That is, I have been deceived, and so have gone out of the way of thy holy Commandments. Satan is an ill guide, and our hearts are no better: He that follows either, quickly looseth himself: And until God seeketh us up (as David prays in the next words) we cannot find our way when we are once out of it (Ezek. 44.15.) The Priests, the Levites, the Sons of Zadock that kept the charge of my Sanctuary, when the people of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me: When the people walked in by places, and were entangled in the briars of their own corruptions; then the Priests kept the charge of the Lord: It was a great mercy, that when the people were deceived, the Priests were not; that when the Sheep went astray, the Shepherds did not? If Priests and people go astray together, who shall reduce them? But to the point, Israel went astray. They who led them did not ⟨p. 171⟩cause them to err (once they did as the Prophet complains) Who then did? Many go astray, when none lead them astray: Man can deceive himself fast enough, if none else do; yet the word implies also the cunning activity, of an external agent, to lead poor souls out of the way. We may take in both here; Let not him that is deceived, whether by the fallacious arguings of his own heart, or by the subtlety of any other, whether Men or Devils.
The Originall word signifies, either the turning of the foot, or the turning of the heart, or both out of the way (Psal. 119.176.