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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.
Trouble takes or seizeth upon many when they least expect it.
Trouble takes or seazeth upon many when they least expect it.
God can send trouble when no man thinks of it. At midnight every one is in bed, all are for rest and quiet. The Lord usually executes his judgements upon the unwary world, upon a secure people (Exod: 12.29.) At midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, &c. And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt. We read also (2 Kings 19.35.) In that night the Angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians, an hundred four-score and sive thousand. It was not a day-battle, but a night-battle; When they were all gone into their tents, and were at rest, when the Army was secure; In that night did the Lord fight them by an Angel, and made a mighty slaughter among them. Belshazzar king of the Chaldeans was slain in the night (Dan: 5.30.) even in that night wherein he made a feast to a thousand of his Lords, and drank wine before the thousand (v. 1.) In that night not only of his security, but of his jollity and sensuality, when he had even drowned himself and his great Lords with wine and belly-cheer, in that very night the City was broken up, and Belshazzar slain; History tells us what dreadful work was made upon the Babylonians that night. The great Judgement day is so described; Jesus Christ will, at last, trouble the world at midnight; The Day of the Lord so cometh (saith the Apostle, 1 Thes: 5.2.) as a thief in the night; when they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, &c, Christ ⟨p. 646⟩himself shadowing his coming under the parable of the ten Virgins, who all slumbered and slept, tells us (Math: 25.6) At midnight there was a cry made, Behold the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him. Though some were in a better condition then others, some wise, some foolish, yet all slept, and it was a kind of midnight to them all. Christ will come, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and then there will be a dreadful Cry among the secure drowsy world. Therefore the Counsel of Christ is most proper (Math: 13.35.) Watch, because ye know not at what hour your Master may come, whether at even, or at midnight, or at Cock-trowing, or in the morning. It is hard to be put to it at midnight, 'tis sad to be in a sleepy or slumbering condition when evil comes.