A35535:1473
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.
Sixthly, Why should we be unwilling to offer our flesh to be consumed by the fury of men, or by the rage of flames in the cause of God, seeing it may ere long consume by sickness and not be seen? why should we be afraid to let our flesh consume or rot in prisons, or by tortures for Christ, seeing a disease will do it, and hath often done it? Thousands of the blazed Martyrs, and suffering Saints, have rejoiced they had flesh to consume when God called them to it. So some interpret that Scripture before mentioned (2 Cor: 12.14.) where the Apostle professed, I am willing to be spent for you (how spent? as an offering or sacrifice by fire) in the service of your faith, and in bearing my witness to those truths of the Gospel which I have preached to you. And indeed, he in that sense, spent his flesh at the last, he suffered death, and let his flesh fall, in holding up and holding out the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is better that our flesh should be thus consumed (if God call us to it) then that we leave it to be consumed by age or sickness, by worms or rottenness. How freely should we offer up this flesh to so noble a consumption, seeing we cannot keep it long from so mean a consumption, do what we can?
Sixthly, Why should we be unwilling to offer our flesh to be consumed by the fury of men, or by the rage of flames in the cause of God, seeing it may ere long consume by sickness and not be seene? why should we be afraid to let our flesh consume or rot in prisons, or by tortures for Christ, seeing a disease will doe it, and hath often done it? Thousands of the blassed Martyrs, and suffering Saints, have rejoyced they had flesh to consume when God called them to it. So some interpret that Scripture before mentioned (2 Cor: 12.14.) where the Apostle professed, I am willing to be spent for you (how spent? as an offering or sacrifice by fire) in the service of your faith, and in bearing my witness to those truths of the Gospel which I have preached to you. And indeed, he in that sense, spent his flesh at the last, he suffered death, and let his flesh fall, in holding up and holding out the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is better that our flesh should be thus consumed (if God call us to it) then that we leave it to be consumed by age or sickness, by wormes or rottenness. How freely should we offer up this flesh to so noble a consumption, seeing we cannot keepe it long from so meane a consumption, doe what we can?