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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.
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 ⟨p. 747⟩other wicked Princes, till at last they were carried into captivity by the common enemy. These & the like are the woeful effects of Gods hiding his face from a Nation; from all which we may well conclude with Elihu in the Text, who then can behold him? who can bear his wrathful presence, when his face or favourable presence is hidden from us? To shut up this point, I shall only add, that because these hidings of Gods face are gradual, (as was showed before) therefore they are little taken notice of; as the Prophet complained (Hos. 7.9.) Grey hairs are here and there upon them, and they know it not; that is, they are in a declining condition, (grey hairs are the signs of old age,1 which is the declension of mans life, he alludes from the body Natural, to the body Civil or Politic, they are I say, in a declining, weakening, spending condition) yet they lay it not to heart. And that's a sore, if not the chiefest judgement of God upon a Nation, when hiding his face, he hides his judgements from them, and gives them up to hardness of heart, to blindness of mind, and a spirit of stupidity, that they see not nor take notice of their own danger, nor the departure of God from them, which is the cause of it. And still the more God hideth his face from a Nation, the more miserable they are, and withal, the more insensible of their misery.