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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.
And his life
As God keeps back his soul from everlasting destruction, so his life from temporal destruction. Though the soul be most preciova, yet life is very precious; skin for skin, yea all that a man hath will he give for his life (Chap. 2.5.) 'Tis therefore no small mercy for God to keep back a mans life ⟨p. 330⟩From perishing by the sword.
As God keeps back his soul from everlasting destruction, so his life from temporall destruction. Though the soul be most precioua, yet life is very precious; skin for skin, yea all that a man hath will he give for his life (Chap. 2.5.) 'Tis therefore no small mercy for God to keep back a mans life ⟨p. 330⟩From perishing by the sword.
The sword is put sometime for war, that being the principal instrument of war; some insist much on that sense here, as if the words contained a promise of being kept from perishing by the sword of an open enemy. But the sword is here rather put for any kind or for all kinds of hurtful evils; what ever doth afflict, vex, or destroy may be called the sword.1 The text strictly in the letter is thus rendered, and his life from passing by or through the sword, we say, from perishing by the sword; which passing by the sword is not to escape the sword, but to fall by the sword, Thus 'tis said of that idolatrous King Ahaz (2 Kings 16.3.) He caused his sons to pass through the fire, the meaning is not that he delivered them out of the fire, but consumed them in the fire; for he made them pass through the fire to Molech, which was a sacrificing of them to that abominable idol. It is also said (2 Sam. 2.31.) when David took Rabba and destroyed the Ammonites, he made them pass through the brick-kiln, not to save them, but to consume them. Some conceive that this brick-kiln through which David made those captive Ammonites to pass was the fire or furnace of Molech, that infamous Idol of the Ammonites (with whose bloody and most cruel devotions the apostatizing Jews or people of God, were in after times ensnared) And if so, then they might see God turning their sin into their punishment; and declaring his fiery wrath against them in that, by which they had declared their foolish and abominable zeal. But that which I quote their punishment for, is only the form of its expression; He made them pass through the brick-kiln;