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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.
Fourthly, Others read the words not in an active sense, (as we) Destroyers, but in a passive, His life draweth nigh to those who are destroyed or dead. Dying men are so near to, that they may be reckoned as dead men. That word of encouragement in the Prophet (Isa: 41.14.) Which we render, Fear not thou worm Jacob, and ye men (or as we put in the Margin Few men) of Israel, is rendered by some others, Fear not thou worm Jacob, and ye that are dead of Israel, that is, who are (in your own fearful apprehensions or in the opinion of your proud and prepotent enemies) as dead men, or nigh unto death; or (as we may expound it by that of Paul concerning himself and his Fellow-Apostles, with respect to the continual hazard of their lives 1 Cor: 4.9.) men, as it were, appointed unto death; yea, as the learned in the Hebrew language tell us,1 the word translated in the Prophet men, with the change but of one point, and that only in the position of it, signifieth properly, dead men. We find the word applied specially to wicked worldly men (Psal: 17.14.) who are there called the hand of God (to afflict or take away the lives of Godly men) and are said to have their portion in this life; the word, I say, is applied to them, as implying, that how much ⟨p. 365⟩soever they rejoice, either in the present enjoyments of this natural life, or in the hopes of a long natural life in this world, yet they always are within one point (or prick with a pen which is the shortest imaginable space) of death. In which sense also St Paul speaking of the different state of the body now in this life and after the resurrection from the dead, saith (1 Cor: 15.54.) When this mortal shall have put on immortality; that is, when we, who now live in dying bodies, or in bodies bearing the marks or tokens of death, and looking like dead men, shall have put on the beautiful and glorious robes of immortality, Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death shall be swallowed up in victory. Whereas now death which is ready enough to get the victory over healthy and strong men, is so ready to get the victory over weak and sick men, that their life may very well be said (according to this fourth and last interpretation) to draw nigh to the destroyed, or those that are already dead.
Fourthly, Others read the words not in an active sence, (as we) Destroyers, but in a passive, His life draweth nigh to those who are destroyed or dead. Dying men are so neere to, that they may be reckoned as dead men. That word of encouragement in the Prophet (Isa: 41.14.) Which we render, Feare not thou worme Jacob, and ye men (or as we put in the Margin Few men) of Israel, is rendred by some others, Feare not thou worme Jacob, and ye that are dead of Israel, that is, who are (in your owne fearefull apprehensions or in the opinion of your proud and prepotent enemies) as dead men, or nigh unto death; or (as we may expound it by that of Paul concerning himselfe and his Fellow-Apostles, with respect to the continuall hazzard of their lives 1 Cor: 4.9.) men, as it were, appoynted unto death; yea, as the learned in the Hebrew language tell us,