A35535:1533
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.
He it is that coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoes latchet I am not worthy to unloose. If there be a messenger.
Hence note.
First, The Ministers of Christ are the messengers of Christ.
Christ is the fathers messenger, and they are messengers sent ⟨p. 373⟩out by Christ. As my father hath sent me, so send I you, said Christ to his Apostles (John 20.21.) And though that Title of Apostle, which signifieth One sent, or a Messenger, be most properly attributed to those, who were immediately called and inspired by Christ, yet in an allayed sense it may be applied, commodiously enough, to any true Minister of the Gospel, for he also is sent; he hath both his mission and commission mediately from Christ. Yea the word Apostle is applied in common to all or any that are sent upon business (