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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
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.
This 17th verse contains two of those blessed ends or designs of God in revealing himself to man by dreams and visions, or by visions in a dream, of which Elihu spake in the two former verses; as then he takes an opportunity to open the ears of men, and seal their Instruction, to fasten and fix his word upon them, to make it stick and stay by them; so in all this his purpose is; That he may withdraw man from his purpose.
This 17th verse containes two of those blessed ends or designes of God in revealing himselfe to man by dreams and visions, or by visions in a dream, of which Elihu spake in the two former verses; as then he takes an opportunity to open the ears of men, and seale their Instruction, to fasten and fix his word upon them, to make it stick and stay by them; so in all this his purpose is; That he may withdraw man from his purpose.
1The word rendered to withdraw, signifies, to take off, or put away, to remove or change for the better. (Isa: 1.16.) Put away the evil of your doings; that is, do no more evil, or (as the Lord speaks by another Prophet, (Jer: 44.4.) O do not this abominable thing that I hate; we render the word in the other sense (Job 27.2.) He hath removed my Judgement far from me. There is in man a kind of settledness and resolvedness upon ⟨p. 297⟩his purpose, he will on; but saith Elihu, the Lord withdraws him, he stretcheth forth his hand, and pull's him back; He withdraweth Man.
1The word rendred to withdraw, signifies, to take off, or put away, to remove or change for the better. (Isa: 1.16.) Put away the evill of your doings; that is, doe no more evill, or (as the Lord speakes by another Prophet, (Jer: 44.4.) O doe not this abominable thing that I hate; we render the word in the other sense (