A35535:1617
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.
And saith, Deliver him from going down into the pit.
And saith, Deliver him from going downe into the pit.
[And saith] that is, the Lord gives out an order presently, he gives out a warrant for the release of the sick man. When earthly Princes have once granted pardon to an offender, they say, deliver him; they sign a warrant for his deliverance out of prison, or they sign a pardon, and say, deliver him from death, when he is at the place of execution. Thus concerning this sick man, God saith, deliver him from going down to the pit.
[And saith] that is, the Lord gives out an order presently, he gives out a warrant for the release of the sick man. When earthly Princes have once granted pardon to an offender, they say, deliver him; they signe a warrant for his deliverance out of prison, or they signe a pardon, and say, deliver him from death, when he is at the place of execution. Thus concerning this sick man, God saith, deliver him from going downe to the pit.
The word rendered deliver, signifies also to redeem, 1'tis used in this form no where else in all the Scripture. To free, deliver or redeem a man, intimates his person in hold, then will he say, deliver him. From what? there are as many sorts of deliverances, as there are of troubles, each particular strait, and trouble, hath a proportionable deliverance. There is deliverance, First, from captivity or bondage. Secondly, from want or poverty. Thirdly, from imminent sudden danger or peril by land or Sea. Fourthly, from sicknesses and diseases. Fifthly, from death; and that two-fold; First, from temporal, Secondly, from eternal death. Here when he saith, deliver him, we may determine this deliverance by the latter words of the text, to be a deliverance from deadly sickness; deliver him from going down to the pit; that is, deliver him from death; To go down to the pit, is often in Scripture put to signify dying.