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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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JOB. Chap. 33. Vers. 23, 24, 25, 26. If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show unto man his uprightness: Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom. His flesh shall be fresher then a child's: he shall return to the days of his youth. He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him, and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render to man his righteousness.
JOB. Chap. 33. Vers. 23, 24, 25, 26. If there be a messenger with him, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to shew unto man his uprightness: Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransome. His flesh shall be fresher then a childes: he shall return to the dayes of his youth. He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him, and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render to man his righteousness.
These words hold forth the third way by which God speaks or reveals himself to man, and recovers him out of his sin. As if Elihu had said; When God hath brought a man to his sick bed, and he yet continueth in his blindness, not perceiving either his own error, or the purpose and intention of God to him; If then besides all this God so order the matter, that in his merciful providence he provideth for his further instruction, and sends a special messenger (as he doth me to thee) an interpreter (which is a singular favour of God) to explain, and expound the meaning of his dealings with him, and what his own condition is, to bring him to a true sight and sense of his sin, and to set him upright in the sight of God, by the actings of faith and repentance; this soon altereth the case, and hereupon God is presently appeased towards him. Then he is gracious, and then many blessed fruits and effects of his grace do follow, and are heaped on him. Here, therefore, we have a very illustrious instance of Gods loving kindness to poor sinful man, recovering and fetching him back (when he is as it were half dead) from the gates of death, restoring him both as to soul and body, putting him into a perfect (so far as on this side heaven it may be called perfect) state, and giving him indeed what he can reasonably desire of him. In the context of these four verses; Consider