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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.
Fourthly, Afflictions are designed by God to bring man out of love with sin, yea to stir up a holy hatred and revenge in him against it; as upon many other accounts, so upon this, because it rewardeth him so ill, and he finds such unsavoury fruits of it. A little digging will discover sin to be the root of all those evil and bitter fruits, which we at any time are fed with in this world. Sin is the gall in our cup, and the gravel in our bread, and we are made to taste bitterness and find trouble, that we may both know and acknowledge it to be so.
Fourthly, Afflictions are design'd by God to bring man out of love with sin, yea to stirre up a holy hatred and revenge in him against it; as upon many other accounts, so upon this, because it rewardeth him so ill, and he finds such unsavoury fruits of it. A little digging will discover sin to be the roote of all those evill and bitter fruits, which we at any time are fed with in this world. Sin is the gall in our cup, and the gravel in our bread, and we are made to taste bitterness and finde trouble, that we may both know and acknowledge it to be so.
Fifthly, The purpose of God in afflicting us, is to set us a praying to and seeking after him. We seldom know our need ⟨p. 344⟩of him, till we feel it. (Hos: 5.15.) In their affliction they will seek me early; affliction puts man upon supplication, yet every man who is afflicted, doth not presently seek God (many in their affliction mind not God, they seek to men, not to God, a cross without a Christ, never made any seek God) but affliction through the workings of the Spirit of Christ, is a means to bring the soul to God; and we see the effect of it at the beginning of the next Chapter in the same Prophet (Hos: 6.1.) Come let us return unto the Lord, for he hath torn, and he will heal us, &c.
Fifthly, The purpose of God in afflicting us, is to set us a praying to and seeking after him. We seldome know our need ⟨p. 344⟩