A35535:1687
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, he shall not barely recover his health, and get upon his legs again (as we say) he shall not merely escape death and the grave, but he shall have an addition of bodily ability, he shall, as it were, be young again. As sickness makes a young man look old, so recovery from sickness makes the old man look young. That's to return to the days of his youth.
That is, he shall not barely recover his health, and get upon his leggs againe (as we say) he shall not meerely escape death and the grave, but he shall have an addition of bodily ability, he shall, as it were, be young againe. As sickness makes a young man look old, so recovery from sickness makes the old man look young. That's to returne to the dayes of his youth.
Hence Note; First.
Bodily beauty, health and strength are the Gift of God.
He gives them, and takes them away at pleasure, or having taken them away, he can give them back when he pleaseth. He kills and he makes alive, he bringeth down to the Grave, and bringeth up, as Hannah said in her Song (1 Sam: 2.6.) How low soever a man is brought by sickness, either proper or metaphorical, the Lord is able to raise him up again. We read (v. 21.) in how pitiful a plight, the sick man was, how rather like a carcass then a living man he looked, His flesh was consumed, that it could not be seen, and his bones which were not seen, stood out; as much as to say, He was nothing but skin and bones; yet, when in that case all hopes were gone, and all natural helps failed, it was no hard matter with God to cure him. When the skill of the Physician, and the virtue of medicines fail, the power of God faileth not. As it is in reference to those outward dangers and desperate exigents, which we meet with in this world by enemies and persecutors, when we look upon our selves as dead men, when all hope of deliverance seems past & gone, then the Lord always can and often doth deliver. The Apostle gives us his experience of it (2 Cor: 1.9, 10.) We had the sentence of death in our selves; he spake not thus in regard of sickness, but of trouble and persecution; As if he had said, The malice and wrath of our enemies was such, that we thought we should never escape, We had the sentence of death in our selves, but providence suffered it to be so, that we should not trust in our selves, but in God who raiseth the dead. As it is (I say) in such dangers, so in dangerous deadly sicknesses; when a poor creature hath the sentence of death in himself, when he makes no other reckoning but to dye, as good King Hezekiah said of himself in his sickness (Isa: 38.13.) I