A35535:1645
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.
The word here rendered a ransom signifies in the Verb, to cover or to hide that which before lay open, that it appear no more. Grace brings another face upon things, a new face, I may say, upon our souls. The covering of sin elegantly denotes the pardon of sin. And what reason have we to be thankful and rejoice, when sin (our soul dirt and deformity) is covered! We have very foul faces (I mean outward conversations) and more foul souls, or inward inclinations, till the Lord is graciously pleased to put a covering upon them. If we cover our own sins we shall have no mercy, but if the Lord once cover our sins, he cannot deny us mercy, that being it self our greatest mercy, and the fruit of his great mercy. The Mercy-seat, so famous in the Mosaical Pedagogy, is expressed by this word, which properly signifieth a Covering. ⟨p. 406⟩The Mercy-seat was it self a Covering of pure gold, laid over the Ark, in which Ark the Law was put (Exod. 25.17.21.) Thou shalt put the Mercy-seat above upon the Ark, and in the Ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. And as the dimensions of the Ark were two Cubits and a half in length, and a Cubit and a half in breadth, so the same were the dimensions of the Mercy-seat; (Vers. 10.17.) which figured that as the Mercy-seat fully covered the Ark wherein the Law was, so Christ should fully cover all our sins, which are transgressions of the Law. The righteousness of Christ is as long and as broad as the Law, and so, our sins being covered with that shall never appear against us. Therefore also from above this Mercy-seat between the two Cherubims (the Lord said (vers. 22.) I will meet thee, and I will commune with thee. There was a gracious manifestation of the presence of God above the Mercy-seat, because that typified Jesus Christ the true Propitiatory or ransom, covering and hiding out of the sight of God for ever all our defections iniquities and transgressions. And hence the same word which signifies expiation or redemption, signifieth also the procuring cause of our Redemption, here called (as also in the New Testament) A Ransom.
The word here rendred a ransome signifies in the Verb, to cover or to hide that which before lay open, that it appeare no more. Grace brings another face upon things, a new face, I may say, upon our souls. The covering of sin elegantly denotes the pardon of sin. And what reason have we to be thankfull and rejoyce, when sin (our soul durt and deformity) is covered! We have very foul faces (I meane outward conversations) and more foul souls, or inward inclinations, till the Lord is graciously pleased to put a covering upon them. If we cover our own sins we shall have no mercy, but if the Lord once cover our sins, he cannot deny us mercy, that being it self our greatest mercy, and the fruit of his great mercy. The Mercy-seat, so famous in the Mosaicall Poedogogy, is exprest by this word, which properly signifieth a Covering.