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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.
And as the Lord strikes some wicked men openly, that others ⟨p. 698⟩may fear and not do the like, so, that they who have done the like may be humbled for, and repent of what they have done. God doth not always pour out the same Judgements upon all those that have done the same wickedness, (the whole world would be in blood if he did so) but he takes here and there one that the rest bethinking themselves, and (with repenting Ephraim) smiting upon their thigh, may prevent the Lord from smiting them at all, especially from striking them as wicked men in the open sight of others. It is said (Rev: 11.13.) that, after by a great earth-quake the tenth part of the City fell, and in the earth-quake were slain of men seven thousand, the remnant were affrighted and gave glory to the God of heaven. And surely the reason why after one man hath been chastised or stricken, others take their turns too, is because they did not take warning by his chastisements and sufferings. Did we but mind the scope of God in punishing any openly, the striking of one might save hundreds, or thousands from being stricken; but because men are so secure and so slow to take warning by what God doth to others, therefore they are called forth one after another, to suffer and feel his heavy hand in their own persons.
And as the Lord strikes some wicked men openly, that others ⟨p. 698⟩may feare and not doe the like, so, that they who have done the like may be humbled for, and repent of what they have done. God doth not alwayes powre out the same Judgements upon all those that have done the same wickedness, (the whole world would be in blood if he did so) but he takes here and there one that the rest bethinking themselves, and (with repenting Ephraim) smiting upon their thigh, may prevent the Lord from smiting them at all, especially from striking them as wicked men in the open sight of others. It is sayd (Rev: 11.13.) that, after by a great earth-quake the tenth part of the City fell, and in the earth-quake were slaine of men seven thousand, the remnant were affrighted and gave glory to the God of heaven. And surely the reason why after one man hath been chastised or stricken, others take their turnes too, is because they did not take warning by his chastisements and sufferings. Did we but mind the scope of God in punishing any openly, the striking of one might save hundreds, or thousands from being stricken; but because men are so secure and so slow to take warning by what God doth to others, therefore they are called forth one after another, to suffer and feel his heavy hand in their own persons.