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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.
Hence note.
Diseases and death are near one another.
A sick bed and a grave are not far distant; David speaking of himself and others in extreme danger of death by the cruel plots and cunning snares of the enemy, hath a like expression (Psal. 141.7.) Our bones are scattered at the graves mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth; as if he had said, we are so near death, that 'tis a miracle if we escape it. Though we are yet alive, yet we have the sentence of death in our selves, and are within sight of our graves. What David spake there of himself in consort with others, Heman spake personally of himself (Psal. 88.3.) My life draweth nigh unto the grave; We are always in our health drawing towards the grave, but in sickness we are drawing near unto it. There is but a little distance between any man and the grave, there is scarcely any distance at all between ⟨p. 361⟩a man that is very sick and the grave. Now if the sick man be drawing near unto the grave, then
A sick bed and a grave are not far distant; David speaking of himself and others in extreame danger of death by the cruell plots and cunning snares of the enemy, hath a like expression (Psal. 141.7.) Our bones are scattered at the graves mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth; as if he had said, we are so near death, that 'tis a miracle if we escape it. Though we are yet alive, yet we have the sentence of death in our selves, and are within sight of our graves. What David spake there of himself in consort with others, Heman spake personally of himself (