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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.
Sixthly, When God hideth himself from a people, he removes their spiritual enjoyments; he takes away his holy Ordinances, his Worship, the light and power of his Gospel, or leaves them nothing but the shells and out-side forms of them; they shall be fed with husks, because they have not improved sweet kernels and wholesome food; they shall have long shadows, but little true light or Sun-shine. Vision shall cease; God will take away his Ministers and be gone, and then they are presently over-run with error and superstition upon one hand, or with ignorance and profaneness on the other.
Sixthly, When God hideth himself from a people, he removes their spiritual enjoyments; he takes away his holy Ordinances, his Worship, the light and power of his Gospel, or leaves them nothing but the shells and out-side forms of them; they shall be fed with husks, because they have not improved sweet kernels and wholsome food; they shall have long shaddows, but little true light or Sun-shine. Vision shall cease; God will take away his Ministers and be gone, and then they are presently over-run with errour and superstition upon one hand, or with ignorance and prophaneness on the other.
Seventhly, He will spoil them also in their Civil enjoyments, he will take away good Magistrates, who are as a staff and a stay, as a shield and a shelter to a Nation; he will break the stay and staff of Government, as he threatened (Isa. 3.1, 2.) and then (as it followeth vers. 5.) The child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable; he will leave them to the corruption of Justice, Judgement shall be turned away backward, and justice shall stand afar off, and then truth falleth in the streets, and equity cannot enter, (Isa. 59.14.) and after all this, what will he do with them? He will either leave them to the worst of National evils, total Anarchy, or, he will give children to be their Princes, and babes shall rule over them. When God hid his face from the Jewish Nation, he broke their Government by taking away ten Tribes out of Rehoboams hand, and putting them under Jeroboam; and out of his hand they fell into the hand of several