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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.
True and faithful interpreters of the mind of God are very rare.
True and faithfull interpreters of the mind of God are very rare.
He is a rare and choice man that is picked out of a thousand men. The faithful messengers and interpreters of the mind of Christ, are rare under a twofold notion; First, as being precious and of great worth and use. Such are the light of the world, and the salt of the earth; The minds of all men would be dark, and their manners corrupt, if God did not send out these interpreters to enlighten and to season them. Secondly, they are rare as not being every where to be had or met with; what is hardly had is highly prized. It is said (1 Sam. 3.1.) The word of God was precious in those days, why so? the reason is added, there was no open vision, there were not such frequent manifestations of the mind of God, as had been formerly; there were few Prophets few Interpreters to be found in those days. The true and faithful messengers or interpreters of the mind of God, are rare at all times, in what numbers soever they appear, though they come like an Army by thousands, though (as is said, Psal. 68.11.) God giving the word great be the company (we put in the Margin Army) of ⟨p. 380⟩those that publish it, or (as the old translation hath it) great be the Company of the Preachers. They are rare, also, because not to be had at some times and in many places. Look over the times or ages of the world, and you will find some of them were dark times, days of ignorance, there were few interpreters; look at any time or at this time over many parts and places of the world, and you shall find such interpreters are not to be found in the greatest part, in the most places of it. Not one to be had in some whole countries and huge tracts of the earth. Go to all the Heathen and Mahometan nations, and you shall not find one of these messengers, or interpreters; go to Greece, which anciently engrossed all knowledge, and was famous for all sorts of learning, yet an interpreter is scarcely to be found there in these days. Go to the popish nations, though they bear the name of Christ, and abound with learned men, men learned in the knowledge not only of common Arts and Sciences, but in divinity and the Scriptures; yet in the sense here spoken of they have not many interpreters, the most being such as pervert and wrest the Scriptures, and lead the people into error, rather the messengers of Antichrist, then of Christ; Satan's emissaries, then Gods interpreters.