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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.
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,
Now seeing paines and sicknesses (of which Elihu speakes as the way and meanes by which God speakes to sinfull man) are accompanied with such dreadfull symptomes and effects, loathing and losse of appetite, consumption of the flesh, and the breaking of the very bones, the soule drawing neere to the grave, and life to the destroyers; seeing I say, there are such sad effects of sicknesse, remember,
First, Health is worth the praying to God for.
Secondly, Health is worth the praising of God for; and that considered, either, first, as continued, or, secondly, as restored. 'Tis a mercy not to be pained, not to be sick; 'tis a more sensible, ⟨p. 367⟩though not a greater mercy to be freed from pain, and recovered out of sickness. While we are kept free from pains and sicknesses, how thankful should we be; and when we are freed from and brought out of the bonds of bodily pain and sicknesses, how soul-sick, yea how dead are we if we are not thankful!
Secondly, Health is worth the praising of God for; and that considered, either, first, as continued, or, secondly, as restored. 'Tis a mercy not to be pained, not to be sicke; 'tis a more sencible, ⟨p. 367⟩