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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.
The ear is the chief Gate or inlet to the soul;1 nor were our ears given only for an Ornament to the head, but for the enriching and bettering of the heart. The naturally rational ear given to hear and try words is a mercy; but when a spiritually rational ear is given with it to hear and try words, that's a mercy indeed. Solomon saith (Prov. 20.12.) The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made even both of them. These natural senses are of Gods own creation, and the use of them his blessing, ⟨p. 502⟩yet common to all mankind good and bad; but the spiritual senses of seeing and hearing, are a special privilege promised to the elect, and a fruit of Gospel grace. (Isa. 35.5.) Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. He meaneth it not either only or chiefly of the bodily eyes and ears (though Christ wrought miracles upon them, and healed both the blind and deaf in the days of his flesh) but of the eyes and ears of the soul, which are often dark and stopped while the other are free enough in the exercise of their several faculties. The seeing eye, which both Solomon and Isaiah intend, is the eye which so seeth as that it followeth the good which it seeth; and that's their hearing ear which believeth and obeyeth what it heareth. A superficial seeing eye is a blind eye, and a formal hearing ear is a deaf ear in the sight and account of God. We say it is the symptom of some distemper or growing disease upon the body, when the palate doth not relish meat; Surely it argueth a diseased and sick soul, when we have no mind to hear nor find relish in the word of God.
The eare is the chiefe Gate or inlet to the soul;1 nor were our eares given only for an Ornament to the head, but for the enriching and bettering of the heart. The naturally rationall eare given to heare and try words is a mercy; but when a spiritually rationall ear is given with it to heare and try words, that's a mercy indeed. Solomon saith (