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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, This hiding of his face, is not a sudden act of God, he doth not presently nor easily hide his face from a people. He tells them often he will do it, before he doth it once. The Lord warned the old world long, before he brought the flood (Gen: 6.3.) And the Lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days (wherein I will spare him and wait for his repentance) shall be an hundred and twenty years. Of this patience the Apostle spake, telling us (1 Pet: 3.19, 20.) That Christ by the Spirit which quickened him, went and preached to the spirits in prison (not in prison when he preached to them, but in prison ever since for not obeying what he preached, as the text saith) which sometime were disobedient, when once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the Ark was a preparing: wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water; God did not presently hide his face from that debauched Generation, ⟨p. 741⟩who had corrupted all their ways, but gave them long warning, even an hundred and twenty years. And how often did God give warning before he withdrew or hid his face from the people of Israel, his special people? He sent his Prophets rising early, and sending them, saying, Oh do not this abominable thing that I hate, (Jer. 44.4.) And in another place, O Jerusalem, be instructed, lest my soul depart (or be disjointed) from thee; (Jer. 6.8.) as if he had said, I am loth to depart, yea I will not depart, if thou wilt but now at length hearken to my voice, and receive instruction.
First, This hiding of his face, is not a sudden act of God, he doth not presently nor easily hide his face from a people. He tells them often he will doe it, before he doth it once. The Lord warned the old world long, before he brought the flood (Gen: 6.3.) And the Lord sayd, my spirit shall not alwayes strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his dayes (wherein I will spare him and wait for his repentance) shall be an hundred and twenty yeares. Of this patience the Apostle spake, telling us (1 Pet: 3.19, 20.) That Christ by the Spirit which quickned him, went and preached to the sp•rits in prison (not in prison when he preached to them, but in prison ever since for not obeying what he preached, as the text saith) which sometime were disobedient, when once the long suffering of God waited in the dayes of Noah, while the Arke was a preparing: wherein few, that is, eight soules were saved by water; God did not presently hide his face from that debauched Generation,