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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.
Further, this word pit, is taken not only for death, the grave, and corruption; but for those contrivances and plots which are made and laid for any mans death or destruction. Thus David said of ⟨p. 329⟩his malicious and subtle enemies (Ps. 7.5.1) Into the pit which they have digged, themselves are fallen; that is, they are taken in their own plots; Those words of the Psalmist are an allusion to Hunters or Fowlers who make pits to ensnare birds or beasts; we must not imagine that there were pits literally made for David, but the pit was a plot or a contrivance to do him mischief, and he blessed God that as himself had escaped that mischief, so that the mischief-plotters and contrivers were taken with it themselves. We have David speaking again under the same metaphor (Ps. 9.15.) The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made. And (Psal. 35.7.) Without cause they have hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause have they digged for my soul; that is, they have laid a plot to undo and destroy me. And if we take pit in this sense it may hold well enough with the scope of the Text; for what is the pit, into which pride and evil purposes thrust sinful man, but that mischief and misery which Satan is continually plotting against him? And from this mischievous plot it is that God delivereth man, while 'tis said by Elihu, he keepeth back His soul from the pit.
Further, this word pit, is taken not only for death, the grave, and corruption; but for those contrivances and plots which are made and laid for any mans death or distruction. Thus David said of ⟨p. 329⟩his malicious and subtle enemies (Ps. 7.5.1) Into the pit which they have digged, themselves are fallen; that is, they are taken in their own plots; Those words of the Psalmist are an allusion to Hunters or Fowlers who make pits to ensnare birds or beasts; we must not imagine that there were pits literally made for David, but the pit was a plot or a contrivance to doe him mischief, and he blessed God that as himself had escaped that mischief, so that the mischief-plotters and contrivers were taken with it themselves. We have David speaking againe under the same metaphor (