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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.
He must mark and hearken, a fruitful hearer doth more then hear, he marks; not only is his ear at work, but his mind, his heart, his whole soul is, as it were, transformed into an ear, or is active at his ear. There are many, and it were well there were more hearers of the word, but there are few markers of the word, many come to Sermons, yet but few hearken unto Sermons; every hearer is not a marker, not a hearkener to what he heareth, and not being so, he can scarcely be called a hearer; for they only that are markers shall attain that mark of which the Apostle speaks (Phil: 3.14.) I press toward the mark for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. What is our mark in hearing? is it not salvation by Christ, and glory with him? Now unless we are markers, we never press towards, much less attain that mark, the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me, hold thy peace, and I will speak.
He must mark and hearken, a fruitfull hearer doth more then heare, he markes; not only is his eare at worke, but his minde, his heart, his whole soule is, as it were, transformed into an eare, or is active at his eare. There are many, and it were well there were more hearers of the word, but there are few markers of the word, many come to Sermons, yet but few hearken unto Sermons; every hearer is not a marker, not a hearkner to what he heareth, and not being so, he can scarcely be called a hearer; for they only that are markers shall attaine that mark of which the Apostle speaks (Phil: 3.14.) I presse toward the mark for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. What is our mark in hearing? is it not salvation by Christ, and glory with him? Now unlesse we are markers, we never presse towards, much lesse attaine that mark, the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Mark well, O Job, hearken unto me, hold thy peace, and I will speake.
1'Tis but one word in the Hebrew which we translate, hold thy peace, and it signifieth properly to dig or plough the ground, and by a metaphor to think of, or to meditate, because thoughts go deep in the soul, a man doth, as it were, plough up his own spirit, while he is meditating or thinking seriously (Pro: 3.29.) Devise not evil, or (it is this word) plough not up evil; that's a bad soil indeed, to be ploughing up. They that plough evil, shall sow the wind, and (except they repent) reap the whirlwind. The prophet exhorting Ephraim to break up their fallow ground and sow in righteousness, that they might reap mercy (Hos: 10.12.) reproves them (v. 13.) for a very unprofitable piece of husbandry, by this word, Ye have ploughed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity, ye have eaten the fruit of lies, that is, ye have plotted, devised, and contrived wicked things, and ye have fared accordingly. Now as the word signifieth to meditate, by a metaphor, from digging or ploughing; so by the figure antiphrasis or contrary speaking,