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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.
Both these gracious dispensations of God are proper to righteous men, or at least appropriate to them in a peculiar manner; the righteous are the ⟨image 5⟩men for whom God provides a messenger or mediator, and the righteous are the men whom God savingly and effectually inspires with the knowledge of his will, in the things which concern both their present work and future reward. Neither hath Satan any power so to darken their understandings about those great things as to make them miscarry; and as for all his other mischievous plots and practices against them, they serve to a clean contrary purpose then he intendeth, according to that most comfortable assertion of the Apostle (Rom: 8.28.) We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Both these gracious dispensations of God are proper to righteous men, or at least appropriate to them in a peculiar manner; the righteous are the ⟨image 5⟩men for whom God provides a messenger or mediatour, and the righteous are the men whom God savingly and effectually inspires with the knowledge of his will, in the things which concerne both their present worke and future reward. Neither hath Satan any power so to darken their understandings about those great things as to make them miscarry; and as for all his other mischievous plots and practices against them, they serve to a cleane contrary purpose then he intendeth, according to that most comfortable assertion of the Apostle (Rom: 8.28.) We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Satan provoked God for a licence to heap outward calamities upon Job in stripping him naked of his worldly substance, and in tormenting his body with grievous pains and sickness; which latter Elihu prosecutes at large (chap: 33.19, 20, 21, 22.) He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain; so that his life abhorreth bread, &c. And what he speaks of sickness is applicable to any or all sorts of affliction; in all which (as it is said, v. 27, 28, 29, 30.) God looketh upon men, and if any say I have sinned and perverted that which is right, and it profiteth me not; he will deliver his