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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.
But doth the soul fall into the pit? I answer, first, The soul is often in Scripture (by a Synecdoche) put for the whole man; He keepeth back his soul, that is, he keepeth him from the pit; secondly, possibly 'tis said, he keepeth his soul from the pit, to teach us that man by running on in sin, ruins his best part, it is not only his body, and his skin that he destroyeth by sin, but his very soul. 'Tis a mercy that God telleth us aforehand the worst of that danger, and the greatness of the hazard, or how great a matter we venture upon evil ways and works. He keepeth back his soul from the pit.
But doth the soul fall into the pit? I answer, first, The soul is often in Scripture (by a Synecdoche) put for the whole man; He keepeth back his soul, that is, he keepeth him from the pit; secondly, possibly 'tis said, he keepeth his soul from the pit, to teach us that man by running on in sin, ruines his best part, it is not only his body, and his skin that he destroyeth by sin, but his very soul. 'Tis a mercy that God telleth us aforehand the worst of that danger, and the greatnesse of the hazard, or how great a matter we venture upon evill wayes and workes. He keepeth back his soul from the pit.
What pit? The word is rendered variously. First thus,1 he keeps ⟨p. 328⟩back his soul from corruption. 2The word is used for corrupting by sin (Gen. 6.12.) And God locked-upon the earth, and behold it was corrupt: for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth; that is, all men were grown wicked and stark naught. In the very next verse (vers. 13.) The same word is used to denote corrupting by punishment due to sin; Behold I will destroy (or corrupt) them with the earth; that is, I will destroy the face of the earth, or deface the beauty of the earth, and I will also destroy all men from off the face of the earth.