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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.
Those afflictions which are but for instruction, may look like those which are for destruction.
Those afflictions which are but for instruction, may looke like those which are for destruction.
When the Lord hath a purpose only to try a man, he often acts towards him as if he would kill him. If any shall say, this is hard, I answer; A ruff horse must have a ruff rider. Ruff wood will not cleave without a beetle and wedges. We put God to use extremities, that he may bring us to a moderation. Our spirits are often so ruff and head-strong, that they must be kept in with bit and bridle; they are so tough and knotty that there's no working, no cleaving of them till the Lord sets his wedges to us, and lays on with his beetle of heaviest and hardest afflictions; In a word, we even compel him to bring us to deaths-door, that he may teach us to live.
When the Lord hath a purpose only to try a man, he often acts towards him as if he would kill him. If any shall say, this is hard, I answer; A ruffe horse must have a ruffe rider. Ruffe wood will not cleave without a beetle and wedges. We put God to use extremities, that he may bring us to a moderation. Our spirits are often so ruffe and head-strong, that they must be kept in with bit and bridle; they are so tough and knotty that there's no working, no cleaving of them till the Lord sets his wedges to us, and layes on with his beetle of heaviest and hardest afflictions; In a word, we even compell him to bring us to deaths-doore, that he may teach us to live.
Now seeing pains and sicknesses (of which Elihu speaks as the way and means by which God speaks to sinful man) are accompanied with such dreadful symptoms and effects, loathing and loss of appetite, consumption of the flesh, and the breaking of the very bones, the soul drawing near to the grave, and life to the destroyers; seeing I say, there are such sad effects of sickness, remember,