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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.
Secondly, He gives quietness to nations by continuing their peace, when wars are ceased; for unless the Lord give a check to the lusts and passions, to the wrath and rage of men, plough-shears are quickly turned into swords, and pruning hooks into spears. To preserve peace is the Lords work, as much as to give peace. It requires the same or as great a power to keep our peace as to make it;1 to keep it out of the hand of the sword, as to get it out of the hand of the sword. When the king of Assyria threatened Jerusalem with a siege, the Lord preserved their peace, and sent Hezekiah word (Isa: 37.33.) He shall not come into this City, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it, for I will defend this City to save it. The continuance of peace, and quietness, is a continual giving of it. Wars return after peace, as clouds return after rain, unless the Lord prevent and forbid them.
Secondly, He gives quietnesse to nations by continuing their peace, when warres are ceased; for unlesse the Lord give a check to the lusts and passions, to the wrath and rage of men, plow-shears are quickly turned into swords, and pruning hookes into speares. To preserve peace is the Lords worke, as much as to give peace. It requires the same or as great a power to keepe our peace as to make it;1 to keepe it out of the hand of the sword, as to get it out of the hand of the sword. When the king of Assyria threatned Jerusalem with a siege, the Lord preserved their peace, and sent Hezekiah word (Isa: 37.33.) He shall not come into this City, nor shoote an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a banke against it, for I will defend this City to save it. The continuance of peace, and quietnesse, is a continuall giving of it. Warres returne after peace, as clouds returne after raine, unlesse the Lord prevent and forbid them.
- 1Non minor est virtus quam quaerere, parta •ueri.