A35535:1601
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.
1The Original word hath many comfortable significations in it, yet all resolvable into this one, he is gracious. It signifies to pity, to have compassion, tenderly to regard, to bestow grace, to do good, there is enough in the bowels of this word to bear up the spirit of the sickest body, or of the most troubled soul. It is said (Gen. 6.8.) Noah found grace (or favour) in the eyes of the Lord. Noah was the only man that held out the grace of God in that age, him only did God find perfect or upright in his Generations (Gen. 6.9.) and Noah only was the man, that found grace or favour in the eyes of the Lord in that generation (Gen. 6.8.) God was gracious to him and his, when the whole world perished by water. That proper name John is derived from this word; when God gave Zechariah and Elizabeth a Son in their old age, he also directed how he would have him called, ye shall call his name John, which name (as we may well conceive) was assigned him either because God did very graciously and favourably bestow that gift upon his Parents in their old age, and so showed them much favour (a child at any time is a great favour from God, especially in old age) or, secondly, because John was to open the Kingdom of Grace, to preach the Gospel, and to prepare the way for Christ, by whom grace and truth came. The Baptist was as it were the loop and button between the legal and the Gospel dispensation; therefore his name might well be called John. And there is frequent use in Scripture of the Adverb which comes from this Verb, to signify injuries received without desert or undeservedly. (Ps. 7.4.) Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine enemy, or that was mine enemy gratis. And again (Psal. 35.7.) For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause have they digged for my soul. Yet more, as the word signifies the doing of good (gratis) or when there is no desert; so any injury done gratis, or when no provocation hath been given the party so to do. Now, as all the mischief which the wicked plot against or do to the people of God is undeserved, and floweth merely from their malice, so all the good which God doth for his people is undeserved, and floweth purely from the fountain of his free grace, or from his compassions, which fail not.