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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.
And as the Jews, so many Christian Churches have for a long time felt the sad effects of these Divine hidings and withdrawings. Those seven famous Churches in Asia, mentioned in the second and third chapters of the Revelation, Ephesus, Smyrna, &c. have been under this woeful Eclipse many hundred years; nor have those ancient Churches in Africa, where Tertullian and Augustine once flourished, recovered the presence of the Lord to this day. Let the Nations and Churches abroad remember this, and tremble to provoke the Lord to such departures and desertions. God hath long hid his face from the Bohemian Churches, & subjected them again to the Papal yoke; several parts of Germany are under the same hidings: the light is departed from them, and they are left in much darkness; their state is very deplorable, and their former purity, both as to doctrines of faith, and practise of worship (as to humane help) irrecoverable. And should not the dealings of God with them, awaken us in these Nations and Churches, to remember and consider the wonderful patience of God in continuing our peace, notwithstanding all our provocations, lest at last he hide his face from us also, and then who can behold him? A throng of evils and mischiefs will soon appear to us with open face, if once ⟨p. 743⟩God hide his face. And it will not be unuseful to instance a little in this place, what those evils and mischiefs are which throng and crowd in upon Nations and Churches, when God hideth his face from them.
And as the Jewes, so many Christian Churches have for a long time felt the sad effects of these Divine hidings and withdrawings. Those seven famous Churches in Asia, mentioned in the second and third chapters of the Revelation, Ephesus, Smyrna, &c. have been under this woful Eclipse many hundred years; nor have those ancient Churches in Africa, where Tertullian and Augustine once flourished, recovered the presence of the Lord to this day. Let the Nations and Churches abroad remember this, and tremble to provoke the Lord to such departures and desertions. God hath long hid his face from the Bohemian Churches, & subjected them again to the Papal yoke; several parts of Germany are under the same hidings: the light is departed from them, and they are left in much darkness; their state is very deplorable, and their former purity, both as to doctrines of faith, and practise of worship (as to humane help) irrecoverable. And should not the dealings of God with them, awaken us in these Nations and Churches, to remember and consider the wonderful patience of God in continuing our peace, notwithstanding all our provocations, lest at last he hide his face from us also, and then who can behold him? A throng of evils and mischiefs will soon appear to us with open face, if once