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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.
1That is, the body, or generality of the people, the many shall be troubled; they shall be as men amazed, or as the Metaphor imports, they shall be disjointed; Men associated under due Laws of Government, are as so many members of a well compacted Body;2 but when broken and scattered, they are like a body whose members are dislocated, or out of joint, unfit for any use or service. And as there is a laxation of the members of the body, a disjointing of the bones, so there is a disjointing of the faculties of the mind; In times of great trouble, not only is the body Politic, which consists of many men, but the mind of every body, or of every single man is much out of joint. The word is applied to those great concussions of the world (Psal. 18.17.) The earth shook and trembled, the foundations also of the hills were moved, and were shaken at the presence of the Lord, because he was wroth; which we may interpret of the Princes and Powers of the earth, who are as hills and mountains; if the Lord do but touch them in anger, they move, yea tremble. The word is applied also to the waves of the Sea, (Jer. 5.22.) which roar, and toss themselves: we commonly say, as in the Text, the Sea is troubled, or 'tis a troubled Sea, a tossing Sea. That expression is also common among us, when we see a man much disquieted, he is (we say) in a great toss; even as a ship at Sea upon the proud waves. Thus saith Elihu, the people shall be in a toss, they shall feel a storm in their minds, sudden gusts of fear and sorrow shall carry them they know not whither; or they shall be lifted up to heaven in vain confidences, and then fall down to hell in despairing thoughts, as the tempest at Sea is described in the 107th Psalm. There is yet another rendering of the Text, in allusion to Drunkards, who are overcome with wine, (Jer. 25.16.) And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad; the word which we translate move, is that in the Text; now we know drunkenness moves men, and puts ⟨p. 643⟩all into disorder and disquietment: Thus the people (through the fierce anger of God, and the wine of astonishment which he gives them to drink) shall be moved, they shall reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man. Great troubles and afflictions are called in Scripture the wine of astonishment, because they make many say and do they scarce know what;