A35535:1750
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.
Observe.
God hides or veils his face, till we humble our souls and seek his face.
God hides or vayles his face, till we humble our soules and seeke his face.
God will not be seen at all times, no not by his own people; There are several cases in which he turneth away his face in anger, or draws a curtain (as it were) yea a cloud between himself and the soul. And this he doth, First, and most usually to try his people, how they can bear his withdrawings, and to see whether or to what they will betake themselves, when he takes himself so much from them, that they cannot see him. Secondly, He doth it often to chasten and correct man for sin. ⟨p. 434⟩To be under the hidings of Gods face, is the saddest effect of sin to a sensible or an awakened soul. David made a grievous complaint because of this, what ever the cause or occasion of it was. (Psal: 13.1.) The absence of God from him (though possibly but for a short time) was so tedious to him, that he cried out, How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord, for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me? Even Jesus Christ while he stood in the place of sinners, bare the hiding of his fathers face, as the sum of all those punishments which were due to and deserved by our sin. This pressed him more then all bodily sufferings, and made him cry out, while he hung upon the Cross, My God, my God (not why hast thou left me to be crucified, but) why hast thou forsaken me (Math: 27.46.) Thirdly, God hideth his face from some, because the manifestations of it have not been received thankfully, nor improved rightly. We ought to give thanks for the light of the Sun shining in the air, and also do our work in it; Is it any wonder if God cloud and eclipse the light of his countenance towards those, who neither prize it, nor improve it? If you would always see the face of God, then be ye always seen at the work and in the ways of God.