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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.
That is, when the messenger hath dealt with the sick man, when he hath opened his condition to him, and showed him his uprightness, or how he may stand upright before God, or what his righteousness is before God, and hath brought his heart to an unfeigned sorrow for his sin, and to the actings of faith upon the promise; then God is gracious, and then he gives out the word for his restoring, and orders it to be presently dispatched away to him, saying, deliver him, unloose him, unbind him, let him not go down into the pit, I have found a ransom. Taking this for the general sense of the Text, I shall proceed to open the particulars.
That is, when the messenger hath dealt with the sick man, when he hath opened his condition to him, and shewed him his uprightness, or how he may stand upright before God, or what his righteousnesse is before God, and hath brought his heart to an unfeigned sorrow for his sin, and to the actings of faith upon the promise; then God is gracious, and then he gives out the word for his restoring, and orders it to be presently dispatcht away to him, saying, deliver him, unloose him, unbind him, let him not goe downe into the pit, I have found a ransome. Taking this for the generall sence of the Text, I shall proceed to open the particulars.
Then he will be gracious, or then, he will have mercy upon him, as Mr Broughton translates. Then and not before; till then the Lord lets his bones ache, and his heart tremble, till then he suffers him to be brought so low that he is reckoned among the dead, but then, though not before, he showeth himself gracious unto him. When a poor man is reduced to the utmost extremity, then is Gods opportunity, then is the season of mercy; and the Lord therefore lets us be at the lowest, that we may be the more sensible of his goodness in raising and lifting us up: The Lord suffers many (as Paul spake of himself, (2 Cor. 1.9.) to have the sentence of death in themselves, that they may learn not to trust in themselves, but in him who raiseth the dead. We seldom give God either the glory of his power by trusting him, or of his goodness by thanking him for our deliverances, till we are brought to the last cast (as we say) or to such an exigent as leaves no visible means in probability, no nor of possibility to escape. And when 'tis thus with us, then he is gracious.