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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.
Note, Thirdly.
Violent death, by the sore and severe judgement of God, often sweeps multitudes away in a moment.
God can thrust whole throngs of men, yea whole Nations into their graves together; it is said (Numb. 16.21.) of Corah and his companions, The earth did cover, or swallow them up in a moment: And the Lord commanded Moses, to say unto the children of Israel (Exod. 33.5.) ye are a stiff-necked people; I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: As if the Lord had said, I will take no long time for it, I can quickly dispatch you; how many soever there are of you, I will do it in a moment. We have a like description of the sudden and quick dispatch of men at the Lord's word of Command, (Psal. 73.19.) How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment, they are utterly consumed with terrors? The final ruin of Babylon was thus prophesied (Isa. 47.9.) These two things shall come to thee in a moment, in one day, the loss of children and widowhood, they shall come upon thee in their perfection; Thou shalt utterly be destroyed, and perish at once for ever. The Prophet Jeremiah (Lam. 4.6.) bewailed the destruction of Jerusalem, whose calamity was greater then that of Sodom and Gomorrah, which God destroyed in a moment: Sodom and Gomorrah were great Cities, yet how soon consumed! In some sense, there is a greater evil in a lingering destruction, then in a speedy one; so the Prophet aggravates death by famine, beyond death by fire; because to die by famine is a lingering death. Caesar being warned that some lay in wait to destroy him suddenly, slighted it, and said, unexpected death is most desirable. And that's the lot of many great men; to which some conceive the Psalmist had respect, when he said, (