A35535:1659
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.
Secondly, Deliverance is obtained by price or payment. When our friends or country-men are taken Captives by Turks or others, we cannot send an Army to rescue them, but usually we do it by ransom; we buy them again out of the enemies hand, or out of bondage. Jesus Christ hath delivered us, not only by power, but by price, it was not (as hath been already showed) by gold or silver, but by his own most precious blood, (1 Pet. 1.18.) Jesus Christ hath delivered us out of the soul destroying hand of ⟨p. 411⟩Satan by force, but he delivers us out of the sin-revenging hand of his Father by price. Christ owed the Devil nothing (nor do we) but blows, but having undertaken our cause, he owed his Father as much as our debt and deliverance from it amounted to, a vast sum, yet he had enough to answer it to the utmost farthing, and did, and so delivered us.
Secondly, Deliverance is obtained by price or payment. When our friends or country-men are taken Captives by Turkes or others, we cannot send an Army to rescue them, but usually we doe it by ransome; we buy them againe out of the enemies hand, or out of bondage. Jesus Christ hath delivered us, not only by power, but by price, it was not (as hath been already shewed) by gold or silver, but by his own most precious blood, (1 Pet. 1.18.) Jesus Christ hath delivered us out of the soul destroying hand of ⟨p. 411⟩Satan by force, but he delivers us out of the sin-revenging hand of his Father by price. Christ owed the Devill nothing (nor doe we) but blowes, but having undertaken our cause, he owed his Father as much as our debt and deliverance from it amounted to, a vast summe, yet he had enough to answer it to the utmost farthing, and did, and so delivered us.
There is a third way of deliverance, and that is by supplication and intercession, which may be considered two ways, First, by our own prayers and supplications; Secondly, by the prayers and supplications of others; which prayers of others are properly called intercessions. The intercession of a man with man may deliver him from the wrath of a man. And the intercession of a man with God, hath wrought the temporal deliverance of some both persons, and Nations; and therefore when the Lord was resolved not to spare his people, he forbade the intercession of the Prophet (