A35535:1691
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, From the way of expressing this, in allusion to a child or a youth.
Secondly, From the way of expressing this, in allusion to a childe or a youth.
Note.
God he can quickly make the greatest changes in nature, either for the better or for the worse, He can turn youth into old age, and old age into youth.
God he can quickly make the greatest changes in nature, either for the better or for the worse, He can turne youth into old age, and old age into youth.
That is, he can make a young or a healthy man weak as an old man, and an old or sickly man strong as a young man; and as it is with natural, so with political bodies, as with persons, so with nations. A nation that is flourishing in its youth, heat, strength and glory, rich and full of peace and plenty, God can bring an oldness upon it, and cause it to decline every day. The Prophet spake of the state of Israel in this notion (Hos: 7.9.) Grey hairs are here and there upon them, and they perceive it not; they thought themselves to be in a very youthful flourishing condition (as a state) but the Lord brought grey hairs, that is, they were decaying, withering, weakening, and became a decrepit nation; And when a nation is grey-haired, old and withered, he can make it youthful, he can recover the honour and power of it, and cause the dread of it to fall upon the neighbouring nations round about. He turns a land into a wilderness, which before was as the Garden of God; And he can change that land into a Garden of God which now is a desolate wilderness. The unchangeable Lord is visible and glorious in all these changes. The health and strength both of the body politic and natural are at his dispose. He can bring a decay upon what is built, and repair what is decayed, whether in nations or persons. When the earthly house of this Tabernacle is ready to drop down into the grave, and crumble into dust, God by a word speaking, repaireth it to as much beauty and strength, as when, the first stone being laid, the top-stone was set up. When Naaman had once submitted to and obeyed the Prophets counsel, which at first he despised, & washed in Jordan, His flesh (saith the text,