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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.
Jobs wound was incurable, there was no balm for him in the Gilead of this world, no Physician there. And therefore the Lord ⟨p. 528⟩bids Egypt, in scorn, seek healing there (Jer: 46.11.) Go up into Gilead and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines, for thou shalt not be cured. Who can heal where God will wound? (Psal: 38.2, 3.) Thine arrows stick fast in me, there is no soundness in my flesh; even David complained that the wounds which the arrows of God had made in him were incurable. Why is my pain perpetual (said the Prophet, Jer: 15.18.) and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb to help him, yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wounds. (Hos: 5.13.) God gives states or bodies politic such wounds, as all the medicines and means in the world cannot help; They may go to the Assyrian, and send to king Jareb, to this and that power; They may call a whole college of State-Physicians or deepest politicians for counsel and advise, yet neither one nor other can be a healer to them. Therefore in the next Chapter (v. 1.) the Church concluded upon another course, and a better address, then either to the Assyrian, or to king Jareb. Come let us return unto the Lord, for he hath torn, and he will heal us; only the Lord who gives the wound can heal the wound; the same hand which smites us must cure us, else our wound is incurable.
Jobs wound was incurable, there was no balme for him in the Gilead of this world, no Physician there. And therefore the Lord ⟨p. 528⟩bids Egypt, in scorne, seeke healing there (Jer: 46.11.) Goe up into Gilead and take balme, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vaine shalt thou use many medicines, for thou shalt not be cured. Who can heale where God will wound? (Psal: 38.2, 3.) Thine arrows stick fast in me, there is no soundness in my flesh; even David complained that the wounds which the arrows of God had made in him were incurable. Why is my paine perpetuall (said the Prophet, Jer: 15.18.) and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb to help him, yet could he not heale you, nor cure you of your wounds. (Hos: 5.13.) God gives states or bodyes politick such wounds, as all the medicines and meanes in the world cannot helpe; They may goe to the Assyrian, and send to king Jareb, to this and that power; They may call a whole colledge of State-Physicians or deepest politicians for counsel and advise, yet neither one nor other can be a healer to them. Therefore in the next Chapter (v. 1.) the Church concluded upon another course, and a better addresse, then either to the Assyrian, or to king Jareb. Come let us returne unto the Lord, for he hath torne, and he will heale us; only the Lord who gives the wound can heale the wound; the same hand which smites us must cure us, else our wound is incurable.