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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.
As a godly man doth not think any sin little, so he doth not think any affliction great compared with his sin. Cain said, My punishment is greater then I can bear; but he did not say, it was greater then his sin. How hot soever the furnace of divine wrath is heated, yet sinners must acknowledge there is sparing mercy in it; and that God might have made it seven times hotter, and therefore hath afflicted them less then their sin. As a godly man is ready to acknowledge his mercy more then he hath deserved (Gen: 32.10.) I (said Jacob) am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and all the truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant, as if he had said; I am less in my good actings then any of thy actings towards me for good have been) so he is ready to say, his greatest afflictions or evils which he suffereth are less then his sins, or then the evils which he hath done.
As a godly man doth not thinke any sin little, so he doth not thinke any affliction great compared with his sin. Cain sayd, My punishment is greater then I can beare; but he did not say, it was greater then his sin. How hot soever the furnace of divine wrath is heated, yet sinners must acknowledge there is sparing mercy in it; and that God might have made it seven times hotter, and therefore hath afflicted them less then their sin. As a godly man is ready to acknowledge his mercy more then he hath deserved (Gen: 32.10.) I (sayd Jacob) am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant, as if he had sayd; I am less in my good actings then any of thy actings towards me for good have been) so he is ready to say, his greatest afflictions or evills which he suffereth are less then his sins, or then the evills which he hath done.
Secondly, The word signifieth to profit, so we translate;1 And it profiteth me not. Other Scriptures comply with this sense (Esther 3.8.) Haman in his malicious and envious suggestions against the Jews, tells the King, It is not for the Kings profit to suffer them to continue. He useth the same word again (Hest: 5.13.) where after he had reported all the great things that he enjoyed, he concludes; What doth all this profit me? or all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the Kings gate?