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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.
The Lord taketh care of the Government of the world.
He is not for breaking work only, he is for setting and settling too. God will not let the body of a people perish for want of a head; but when in judgement he hath broken one in pieces, he ⟨p. 685⟩in mercy sets up another. Mighty men are like pillars, which bear the weight of a whole Commonwealth or Kingdom. God rarely deals with Nations, as Sampson did with the house wherein the Philistines were assembled, who at once pulled away the pillar, and pulled down the house; but if he pulleth away one pillar, he puts in another, that the house may stand. God will not leave the world without rule or rulers: when he takes with one hand; he gives with another; when Judas the Traitor was broken, Christ found out (a better man) Matthias to set in his stead. And when the whole Nation or Church of the Jews was broken and rejected, God called in the Gentiles, and set them up for a Church and people to himself in their stead; and (which is the greatest instance of all) when Jesus Christ was taken from the earth, when he left the world, who was the mighty one (he was first broken in pieces for our sins, and afterwards taken away) yet he gave a supply, and left us another in his stead; I will not leave you comfortless, (saith he John 14.18.) I will come unto you, though not till the great day in person, yet every day in the gifts and graces of my Spirit. I will pray the Father and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; (John 14.16.) Again, (John 16.13.) When he the Spirit of Truth is come, he will guide you into all truth. God sent the Spirit in Christ's stead; he doth that for us which Christ did for us while he abode on the earth: and therefore the holy Spirit is not unfitly called the Vicar of Christ here on earth, he feeds the flock of Christ, he looks to his people, he teacheth, he comforteth them in Christ's stead. And thus in Nations, when God breaketh one Governor, he sets up an other in his stead; he will not leave Nations without guides and leaders, nor suffer the staff of Government to be utterly broken, which is the greatest plague that can come upon any people. From the whole verse take these tree deductions.