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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.
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 (Job 27.2.) He hath removed my Judgement farre 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 withdrawes him, he stretcheth forth his hand, and pull's him back; He withdraweth Man.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] auferre erit, vel mutare in melius.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 auferre erit, vel mutare in melius.
Adam, the earthly man; The proper name of the first man, is the common name of all men. Man is earthly by nature, and so are all his natural purposes. To draw an earthly man from that which is earthly, is no easy matter; only the power of God can do it, He withdraweth man From his purpose.