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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.
He heareth the cry of the afflicted.
Many cries come up to God which he doth not hear, he doth not regard them, and 'tis possible for a poor man to cry to God and God not hear him, in the sense here spoken of; Some poor men cry (as we say) before they are hurt; they cry rather out of discontent then want, they cry because they have not what they desire, not because they have not what they need. God will not hear the cry of such, though poor: but when a poor man is afflicted, when a poor man that is humbled (as the word here signifies) and laid low in his state, is low also in spirit, and lowly in mind, God heareth the cry of such a poor man. If a poor man have a proud spirit, or is humorous, God will not hear him, though he cry. The word here rendered, afflicted, signifies not only a man destitute of help, of strength, of friends, of assistance,1 (such is the reach and strength of that word) but he is one of a submitting patient spirit, or it noteth a man not only first, unable to resist his oppressor, but, secondly, unwilling at least not forward to make resistance, but sitting down by the loss quietly, or possessing his soul in patience when he hath lost all that he possessed by oppression. The Lord hears the cry of this afflicted man; he will not reject his cry, nor stop his ears against it. And when Elihu saith, He heareth the cry of the afflicted, his meaning is, he yields or grants him the thing he cries, for.
Many cryes come up to God which he doth not heare, he doth not regard them, and 'tis possible for a poore man to cry to God and God not heare him, in the sence here spoken of; Some poore men cry (as we say) before they are hurt; they cry rather out of discontent then want, they cry because they have not what they desire, not because they have not what they need. God will not heare the cry of such, though poore: but when a poore man is afflicted, when a poore man that is humbled (as the word here signifies) and layd low in his state, is low also in spirit, and lowly in minde, God heareth the cry of such a poore man. If a poore man have a proud spirit, or is humorous, God will not heare him, though he cry. The word here rendred, afflicted, signifies not only a man destitute of helpe, of strength, of friends, of assistance,