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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.
Further, Not only are we to consider the sickness of the body, as the cause of this tastelessness and listlessness after bread. But ⟨p. 348⟩we are to consider the sick man abhorring dainty meat, under the hidings of Gods face, or in fears about his spiritual state; as appears by that which followeth, If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one of a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness, or to set him right in his spiritual state, &c. The sick man for want of that as well as for want of health, can taste no sweetness in the rarest dainties.
Further, Not only are we to consider the sickness of the body, as the cause of this tastlesness and listlesness after bread. But ⟨p. 348⟩we are to consider the sick man abhorring dainty meate, under the hideings of Gods face, or in feares about his spirituall state; as appeares by that which followeth, If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one of a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness•, or to set him right in his spirituall state, &c. The sick man for want of that as well as for want of health, can taste no sweetness in the rarest dainties.
Hence note.
A sense of divine displeasure, or the hiding of divine favour from the soul, renders all outward comforts comfortless to us.
A sense of divine displeasure, or the hideing of divine favour from the soule, renders all outward comforts comfortlesse to us.