A35535:1796
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 must be granted, that to look upon or behold man, is in Scripture, a descriptive periphrasis or circumlocution, expressing a man recovered from some dangerous & deadly sickness. And therefore when Hezekiah thought his sickness was to death, and his case desperate; He thus bemoaned himself (Isa: 38.11.) I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living; I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. But, saith Elihu, the sick man being perfectly recovered, talks with and looks upon men; And the first discourse he issueth, is a confession of repentance for his iniquity; I have sinned, I have perverted that which was right, and it profiteth not: And his next is a confession of praise for his recovery; He hath delivered, or I am assured he will deliver my soul from going down to the pit, and my life shall see the light. This is a profitable exposition; and much insisted upon by some very learned interpreters, and therefore I shall make a little improvement of it by this brief observation.
It must be granted, that to look upon or behold man, is in Scripture, a descriptive periphrasis or circumlocution, expressing a man recovered from some dangerous & deadly sickness. And therefore when Hezekiah thought his sickness was to death, and his case desperate; He thus bemoaned himselfe (Isa: 38.11.) I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living; I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. But, saith Elihu, the sick man being perfectly recovered, talkes with and looks upon men; And the first discourse he issueth, is a confession of repentance for his iniquity; I have sinned, I have perverted that which was right, and it profiteth not: And his next is a confession of praise for his recovery; He hath delivered, or I am assured he will deliver my soule from going downe to the pit, and my life shall see the light. This is a profitable exposition; and much insisted upon by some very learned interpreters, and therefore I shall make a little improvement of it by this briefe observation.
It is our duty, being recovered from sickness, to confess and make known the goodness of God and our sinfulness to those that are about us.