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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.
They come not at all by chance, nor do they come altogether from natural causes. Nature hath somewhat to do in their coming, but somewhat else much more, even so much more, that in respect of that, natural considerations may be quite shut out, and the whole cause ascribed to that. But what is that? surely, nothing else but, and nothing less then the will of God. He is pleased to give commission to pains and sicknesses, and then they come. Elihu would teach Job (what he owned before) that God was the sender and orderer of all his afflictions, as of the losses he had in his estate and children, so of the pains and sicknesses which he felt in his body. Moses tells the children of Israel, not only that sword and captivity, but the Pestilence, Consumptions, Fevers, and burning Agues are sent by God himself, (Deut. 28.21, 22.) ⟨p. 342⟩What are diseases but the Lords Messengers? When he pleaseth he can trouble the temper and cause the humours of the body to corrupt. He can make them contend with one another to the death, let Physicians do what they can to quiet and pacify them. Yea though some skilful Physicians have kept their own bodies in so due a temper, and to so exact a diet, that they could not see which way a disease could take hold of them, or have any advantage against them, yet sickness hath come upon them like an armed man, and carried them away to the grave.
They come not at all by chance, nor doe they come altogether from naturall causes. Nature hath somewhat to doe in their coming, but somewhat else much more, even so much more, that in respect of that, naturall considerations may be quite shut out, and the whole cause ascribed to that. But what is that? surely, nothing else but, and nothing lesse then the will of God. He is pleased to give commission to pains and sicknesses, and then they come. Elihu would teach Job (what he owned before) that God was the sender and orderer of all his afflictions, as of the losses he had in his estate and children, so of the pains and sicknesses which he felt in his body. Moses tells the children of Israel, not only that sword and captivity, but the Pestilence, Consumptions, Feavers, and burning Agues are sent by God himself, (Deut. 28.21, 22.) ⟨p. 342⟩