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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.
But I shall only pursue our reading, and give the sense accordingly. They cause the cry of the poor to come unto [him] that is, unto God. The cry of the poor is their mournful cry, their pitiful lamenting cry; yet this cry may possibly be, not so much vocal as real, not so much what the poor did make formally or directly to God about their wrongs, but the very wrongs and evils which they suffered cried to the righteous Judge of all the earth. Their affliction had a cry, a voice, a tongue, a thousand tongues in it. They cause the cry of the poor.
But I shall only pursue our reading, and give the sense accordingly. They cause the cry of the poore to come unto [him] that is, unto God. The cry of the poore is their mournfull cry, their pittifull lamenting cry; yet this cry may possibly be, not so much vocall as reall, not so much what the poore did make formally or directly to God about their wrongs, but the very wrongs and evills which they suffered cryed to the righteous Judge of all the earth. Their affliction had a cry, a voyce, a tongue, a thousand tongues in it. They cause the cry of the poore.
The word properly signifieth those who are exhausted and drawn dry; oppressors will squeeze and suck such as they get into their power, till they have drawn out every drop; they will empty them from vessel to vessel, till they become empty vessels, and then like empty vessels the poor sound most and make the greatest cry. When oppressors have got all the money out of the purses of the poor, when they have pulled the bread out of their mouths, and even drawn the blood out of their veins, then they (poor souls!) sound out and send up their cries to purpose. So that they cause the cry of the poor to come up unto him.
The word properly signifieth those who are exhausted and drawne dry; oppressors will squeze and suck such as they get into their power, till they have drawne out every drop; they will empty them from vessel to vessel, till they become empty vessels, and then like empty vessels the poore sound most and make the greatest cry. When oppressors have got all the money out of the purses of the poore, when they have pull'd the bread out of their mouthes, and even drawne the blood out of their veines, then they (poore soules!) sound out and send up their cryes to purpose. So that they cause the cry of the poore to come up unto him.