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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.
He that is strong as an Oak, and hath (as it were) a body of brass and sinews of iron; yet the Lord can make him as weak as water. The Lord hath strong pains for strong men, and can quickly turn our strength into weakness. Thus Hezekiah lamented in his sickness (Isa. 38.13.) I reckoned till morning that as a Lion, so will he break all my bones. God can arm diseases with the strength of a Lion, who not only teareth the flesh, but breaketh the bones with his teeth. David saith (Psal. 39.11.) When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth, surely every man is vanity. The word there rendered beauty signifieth desire, 1thou makest his desire, or that which is most desirable in him to fade away; we well translate beauty, because beauty draweth the desires of man after it, and is so much desired, yea lusted after by man. Now, as when the Lord doth but touch the body, he can make the beauty, so also the strength of it to consume away as a moth.
He that is strong as an Oake, and hath (as it were) a body of brasse and sinews of iron; yet the Lord can make him as weak as water. The Lord hath strong pains for strong men, and can quickly turne our strength into weaknesse. Thus Hezekiah lamented in his sicknesse (Isa. 38.13.) I reckoned till morning that as a Lion, so will he break all my bones. God can arme diseases with the strength of a Lion, who not only teareth the flesh, but breaketh the bones with his teeth. David saith (Psal. 39.11.) When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth, surely every man is vanity. The word there rendred beauty signifieth desire, 1thou makest his desire, or that which is most desireable in him to fade away; we well translate beauty, because beauty draweth the desires of man after it, and is so much desired, yea lusted after by man. Now, as when the Lord doth but touch the body, he can make the beauty, so also the strength of it to consume away as a moth.