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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.
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 ⟨image 6⟩soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, to bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.
Satan provoked God for a licence to heape outward calamities upon Job in stripping him naked of his worldly substance, and in tormenting his body with grievous paines and sickness; which latter Elihu prosecutes at large (chap: 33.19, 20, 21, 22.) He is chastned also with paine upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong paine; so that his life abhorreth bread, &c. And what he speakes of sickness is applicable to any or all sorts of affliction; in all which (as it is sayd, 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 ⟨image 6⟩soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. Lo, all these things worketh God oftentimes with man, to bring back his soule from the pit, to be enlightned with the light of the living.
From these premises we may collect both what is proper to the righteous; and that, in whatsoever is common to them with the wicked, there is neither disorder nor confusion. For though the best of the righteous are liable to the same outward evils which the worst of the wicked are, yet their condition is not the same; seeing to the wicked those evils are purely punishments, & but the beginning of those sorrows which shall never end; whereas to the righteous they are either but chastisements for some sin already committed, or medicaments to prevent the committing either of the same, or of some other sin. And as for those who by such chastenings are brought to a sight of their sins and forsake them, their souls are (by this means, v. 30.) brought back from the pit to be enlightened with the light of the living.