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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
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Vers. 22. His soul draweth nigh to the grave, and his life to the destroyer.
When the disease is at the height (as Physicians speak) then the sick mans soul draweth nigh unto and is ready to go down into the grave. But doth the soul go to the grave? I answer, the soul, here, as frequently in Scripture, is put for the person; as if he had said, the man draweth nigh to his grave; The soul being the noblest and most princely part of man, is honoured with the denomination of the whole man; or, because all the world is nothing to us (as Christ told his Disciples (Math. 16.26.) if we lose our souls, therefore man is spoken of as if he were nothing but a soul (Gen. 14.21.) The King of Sodom said unto Abram, give me the souls, and take the goods to thy self, we translate, ⟨p. 360⟩give me the persons, and put in the Margin, give me the souls; Thus 'tis said (Gen. 46.27.) All the souls of the house of Jacob that came into Egypt were threescore and ten. The Apostles rule of obedience to Magistrates runs in this strain, Let every soul (that is, let every man) be subject to the higher Powers (Rom. 13.) And I conceive the Apostle expresseth it so, because there ought to be an inward subjection to that, as to any other Ordinance of God; the soul must be subject as well as the body to the powers of this world, that is, there must be (though no subjection of conscience, yet) a conscientious subjection unto Magistrates. Thus here, his soul that is, himself, the man draweth near Unto the grave; to corruption, say some, to the pit, say others.
When the disease is at the height (as Physitians speak) then the sick mans soul draweth nigh unto and is ready to goe downe into the grave. But doth the soul goe to the grave? I answer, the soul, here, as frequently in Scripture, is put for the person; as if he had said, the man draweth nigh to his grave; The soul being the noblest and most princely part of man, is honoured with the denomination of the whole man; or, because all the world is nothing to us (as Christ told his Disciples (