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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 33
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That God will utterly destroy the very appearing hopes of wicked men. Their boughs and branches may be green, some flowers, some unripe Grapes may appear; here is hope; but, He shall shake off; that is, God shall shake off (by some terrible storm which he will raise, by some sudden judgement which he will send) their unripe Grapes, and their fairest Flowers.
That God will utterly destroy the very appearing hopes of wicked men. Their boughs and branches may be green, some flowers, some unripe Grapes may appeare; here is hope; but, He shall shake off; that is, God shall shake off (by some terrible storm which he will raise, by some sudden judgement which he will send) their unripe Grapes, and their fairest Flowers.
Hence Observe.
Violent judgements storm wicked men out of all their comforts. Thus the Egyptians are threatened (Isa. 18.5, 6.) Before the Harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour Grap• is […] in the Flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning […] o•s, and take away, and cut down the branches. They shall b• ••f• •••her, ⟨p. 192⟩unto the Fowls of the Mountains, and to the Beasts of the Earth, and the Fowls shall Summer upon them, &c. The Bud is perfect, while the fruit is imperfect, while God takes away their Buds he destroys their hopes. And as God hath his winds at hand, to shake the fruit off from the branches; so he hath his Pruning-hooks to cut off the branches also.