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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.
1Secondly, by the destroyers others understand, Angels, who are commissioned and sent of God to cut the thread of life, and to take mortals out of this world by mortal diseases; and so the destroying Angel in this verse stands in opposition to that comforting Angel spoken of in the next verse; if there be a messenger or an Angel, &c. That Angels have such a Ministry, is clear, (2 Sam. 24.16.) Where (David having chosen to fall into the hands of God) an Angel is presently dispatched to do execution upon his people. And when the Angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the Angel that destroyed the people, it is enough, stay now thine hand, &c. That destroyer (so he is called, Exod. 12.23.) who slew all the first borne of the Egyptians (Gods last and greatest plague upon them, his tenth plague) is by most interpreted to be an Angel, yea by some a good Angel, because appointed ⟨p. 363⟩and directed by God to spare his people the Jews, and to pour out his vengeance upon the Egyptians, his and their enemies. For most usually the wicked are plagued by good Angels, and the good, as Job in this book was, are afflicted by evil Angels. Howbeit that text say some (Psal. 78.49.) leadeth us rather to believe that it was an evil Angel; He cast upon them (meaning the Egyptians) the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, by sending evil Angels among them. Yet possibly those Angels which destroyed the Egyptians, are called evil Angels, not because they were so in their nature, but because they were Ministers of evil to that hard-hearted people. Which way soever we take it, there is a truth in it applicable to the Scripture here in hand. And so some expound that of Solomon (Prov. 17.11.) An evil man seeketh only rebellion, therefore a cruel Messenger shall be sent against him. The text may be rendered a cruel Angel, that is, an Angel with a Message of wrath and destruction shall be sent unto him; The Apostle (