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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.
Hence Observe, First, God can easily ruin the mightiest men of the world.
Hence Observe, First, God can easily ruine the mightiest men of the world.
He can break them in pieces, as an earthen vessel, with an iron rod, and how soon is that done? Both the holy Scriptures, and humane Histories abound with such examples. What a number of mighty men inhabited the old world? There were Giants in the earth in those days, (Gen. 6.4.) yet God overthrew them all by a flood, they sank like lead in those mighty waters. What mighty men inhabited Canaan, before the children of Israel came to possess it? The searchers of the land brought in a report, that they were but as Grasshoppers to them, & they had Cities walled up to heaven, yet the Lord broke in pieces all those mighty men, Sihon the King of the Amorites, and Og the King of Bashan; and when David came to the Crown, he (in Gods strength) destroyed the rest of ⟨p. 682⟩them. What mighty men were they that sate upon the Throne of the four Monarchies? They had in their days the rule of the whole world, yet the Lord brake them in pieces. First, the Assyrian, then the Persian; the Grecian, and the Roman Monarchs were also broken in pieces: This was revealed to the golden head in a dream, (Dan. 2.35.) Then was the Iron, the Clay, the Brass, the Silver, and the Gold broken in pieces, and became like the chaff of the Summer threshing floor. The mighty men of Israel, (when they sinned mightily) the mighty men of the ten Tribes, yea the mighty men of the two Tribes of Judah and Benjamin, God brake in pieces; his own mighty people could not stand before him, when they corrupted themselves, and would not be made clean. God breaketh mighty men, as easily as they break his commandments: And usually when mighty men come to that height of sinning, to sin, or break his Commandments with ease, he commands them (for his own ease, as he is pleased to speak