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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.
First, God graciously hears the cry of humble oppressed ones.
First, God graciously heares the cry of humble oppressed ones.
Whosoever cry to him upon just cause; being indeed oppressed, though they are not godly, yet God will take notice of their cry; for he will right the oppressed as oppressed, and therefore the Jews had those cautions (Exod: 22.23. Deut: 24.15.) not ⟨p. 723⟩to wrong any servant or stranger, let him be who or whence he would, lest he cry to me (saith God) and it be sin to thee. But when any are not only oppressed and suffer wrong, but are also godly, of humble and lowly spirits, they are heard much more; when it is not only a cry of nature, but a cry of grace; not only a complaining cry, but a praying cry, God will certainly hear, (Luke 18.12.) Shall not God avenge his own elect that cry to him day and night? when it is not only a complaining cry that they are under oppression, but a believing cry to be, or that they shall be delivered from oppression, when it is a holy cry, the cry of the elect, God cannot but hear their cry. He heareth other cries, he heareth the cry of the Ravens when they call upon him, and provides for them, much more will he hear the cry of Saints, the cry of believers, the cry of the humbled and humble.
Whosoever cry to him upon just cause; being indeed opprest, though they are not godly, yet God will take notice of their cry; for he will right the oppressed as oppressed, and therefore the Jewes had those cautions (Exod: 22.23. Deut: 24.15.) not ⟨p. 723⟩to wrong any servant or stranger, let him be who or whence he would, lest he cry to me (saith God) and it be sin to thee. But when any are not only opprest and suffer wrong, but are also godly, of humble and lowly spirits, they are heard much more; when it is not only a cry of nature, but a cry of grace; not only a complaining cry, but a praying cry, God will certainly hear, (