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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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Thirdly, we may take the destroyers, not for persons sent to destroy, but for diseases, and sicknesses; these are destroyers. And ⟨p. 364⟩thus it may be said of a sick man, his life draweth nigh to the destroyers, that is, he is in the hand or under the power of such diseases, as probably will destroy him. That seems to be Mr. Broughtons understanding of the words,1 who renders, his soul draweth nigh to the grave, and his life to killing maladies. Whatsoever is a death-bringer, whatever is deadly or mortal to man, may be comprehended under this expression, The Destroyers. And so, these words, His life draweth nigh to the destroyer, may signify only thus much, he is deadly, or (as we commonly express it) mortally sick. There's no hopes of him, he is past recovery, the Physicians have given him over. Heman (Psal. 88.3, 4, 5.) speaks to this sense and near in this language of himself. My soul is full of troubles: my life draweth nigh unto the grave. I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength. Free among the dead, like the slain that lye in the grave whom thou rememberest no more. Heman was alive, yet with respect either to the anguish of his soul, or the pains of his body, he looked upon himself as one free among the dead, that is, as a dead man, his life drew near to the destroyers. And hence
Thirdly, we may take the destroyers, not for persons sent to destroy, but for diseases, and sicknesses; these are destroyers. And ⟨p. 364⟩thus it may be said of a sick man, his life draweth nigh to the destroyers, that is, he is in the hand or under the power of such diseases, as probably will destroy him. That seems to be Mr. Broughtons understanding of the words,1 who renders, his soul draweth nigh to the grave, and his life to killing maladies. Whatsoever is a death-bringer, whatever is deadly or mortall to man, may be comprehended under this expression, The Destroyers. And so, these words, His life draweth nigh to the destroyer, may signifie only thus much, he is deadly, or (as we commonly expresse it) mortally sick. There's no hopes of him, he is past recovery, the Physitians have given him over. Heman (