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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 being up is weary, weary with walking, riding or labouring, hopeth to find ease in his bed, yet then doth pain deny him ⟨p. 343⟩rest there, and filleth him (as Job complained, Chap. 7.4.) with tossings too and fro unto the dawning of the day. The Lord can make the Stocks or a Rack easy to us, and our beds as uneasy to us as the Stocks or a Rack usually are.
He that being up is weary, weary with walking, riding or labouring, hopeth to find ease in his bed, yet then doth pain deny him ⟨p. 343⟩rest there, and filleth him (as Job complained, Chap. 7.4.) with tossings too and fro unto the dawning of the day. The Lord can make the Stocks or a Rack easie to us, and our beds as uneasie to us as the Stocks or a Rack usually are.
Lastly, observe.
The purpose of God in chastening man with sickness, is to teach and instruct him, not vex and destroy him.