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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 word which we render incurable, signifies not only what is ⟨p. 526⟩very dolorous, or grievous, but mischievous, mortal, and deadly. And from this word man is called Enosh in the Hebrew, to show how infirm and frail he is, sin having given him a wound which is incurable, by any thing but the blood of Jesus Christ. Job felt his wounds, and he spake of them, as a man swallowed up with desperation, and expected no cure of his present sad condition; My wound is incurable, and he concluded with that which is yet harder, My wound is incurable Without transgression.
The word which we render incurable, signifies not only what is ⟨p. 526⟩very dolorous, or grievous, but mischievous, mortall, and deadly. And from this word man is called Enosh in the Hebrew, to shew how infirme and fraile he is, sin having given him a wound which is incurable, by any thing but the blood of Jesus Christ. Job felt his wounds, and he spake of them, as a man swallowed up with desperation, and expected no cure of his present sad condition; My wound is incurable, and he concluded with that which is yet harder, My wound is incurable Without transgression.
Mr. Broughton translates, My stroke is sore without trespass. Job in saying his wound was incurable, showed a defect in his faith, but in saying it was incurable without transgression, he seemeth to show his defect in truth. For surely had there not been transgression in him, there had never been a wound upon him; God had never so much as broken our skin but for sin; Man had never felt so much as the scratch of a pins point by the hand of God, if he had not once prevaricated and Apostatized from God. We owe all our sorrows to our sins, all our woundings to our transgressings. How then doth Job say, My wound is incurable without transgression? The word here used is not usually put to signify sin in general (though some take it so) but some special kind of sin,1