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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.
First, A gathering to our people. Thus it is said of Aaron, (Num. 20.24.) Aaron shall be gathered unto his people, for he shall not enter into the land, &c. Death separates the people of God from their people, that is, from those that are like them on earth, but it will be a means of bringing them into the society of their people, or fellow believers who are gone before them into heaven.
Secondly, Death is called a gathering to our Fathers, (2 Chron. 34:28.) Behold I will gather thee to thy Fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace. There's a gathering to a more special company, and that with other like Scriptures are an argument that we shall know our relations in heaven. For, to be gathered to our Fathers, spoken of in the first part of the verse, is more then to be gathered to the grave, spoken of in the latter; and by our fathers, we are to understand more of our fathers then the grave hath in its keeping (which is but their bodies) even their souls, which are kept in heaven.
Thirdly, According to the phrase of this Text, death is called a gathering to God; If he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath.