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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.
It is the greatest joy and happiness of man imaginable to see the face of God.
Any manifestation of God is a joyful favour, and a full manifestation of him fills the heart with joy; Lord lift up the light of thy countenance upon us (saith David, Psal: 4.6, 7.) thou hast put gladness in my heart more then in the time their corn and wine increased; As if he had said, I rejoice in thy favour more then worldlings do in their best enjoyments. Show us the father and it sufficeth us, said Philip (John 14.8.) let us have but that favour, and we desire no more; we have enough, we can have no more, if we may but see the father. True joy stands not in any sights, nor in the sight of any thing here below, but in the sight of God above while we are below, and in a hope that we shall at last get above too, and there have an everlasting sight of him, in whose presence is fullness of joy, and at whose right hand are pleasures for evermore. We read in the Levitical Law, of the show-bread, which was to be set in the holy place, upon a Table (Exod: 25.30.) The Hebrew is, the bread of faces. There are two reasons of this denomination; First, Because that Bread did show the gracious provision that God made for them all the way they journeyed from Egypt to Canaan, or that he spread a Table for them in the wilderness where they had no harvest; To which the Prophet may allude (Jer: 2.2.) I remember (saith the Lord) ⟨p. 436⟩the kindness of thy youth, the love of thy espousals, when thou wentest after me in a land that was not sown; that is, when thou didst trust me for thy daily bread. Secondly, It was called the show-bread, to testify the special presence of God with them, and that his eye was always upon them, ready to do them good upon all occasions. This was the high privilege of the Jews then, they had the bread of faces; and this is the joy of the people of God now, that what ever good they have, it is the face of God to them; their bread is the bread of faces, and their wine is the wine of faces, &c. that is, they are a signification of the favour and love of God to them, or they look upon the love and favour of God manifested in those things, much more then upon the things themselves. Now if it be so great a mercy to have some manifestation of the face or favour of God, or that we are always in the sight and view of God; What will it be to us when we shall always abide in the presence of God, and see his face with joy?