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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 yet even these, as now they are not, so then they were not always exempted from sufferings; For as the second sort of righteous men are often afflicted in a way of chastisement for their sins; ⟨image 7⟩so the Lord reserves to himself a liberty (his Sovereignty allowing it) to afflict the best and holiest of his servants for the trial of their graces, or the magnifying of his own grace to them and in them; as a Master of Heroic Arts and Games imposeth a very laborious task upon his Scholar-Champion, not as a punishment of any default, but to confirm his strength and exercise his valour.
And yet even these, as now they are not, so then they were not alwayes exempted from sufferings; For as the second sort of righteous men are often afflicted in a way of chastisement for their sins; ⟨image 7⟩so the Lord reserves to himselfe a liberty (his Soveraignty allowing it) to afflict the best and holiest of his servants for the tryall of their graces, or the magnifying of his owne grace to them and in them; as a Master of Heroick Arts and Games imposeth a very laborious task upon his Schollar-Champion, not as a punishment of any default, but to confirme his strength and exercise his valour.
The due consideration of all these things laid together by Elihu, might well satisfy Job, and sustain his faith in a patient bearing the burden of all those calamities, which the Great and most wise God was pleased to impose upon him, and likewise convince him that he had failed much in giving out so many impatient complaints about them. And no doubt they prevailed much with him, both towards his conviction, and the quieting of his heart under those dispensations; For we hear no more of him in that language.
The due consideration of all these things layd together by Elihu, might well satisfie Job, and sustaine his faith in a patient bearing the burden of all those calamities, which the Great and most wise God was pleased to impose upon him, and likewise convince him that he had fayled much in giving out so many impatient complaints about them. And no doubt they prevailed much with him, both towards his conviction, and the quieting of his heart under those dispensations; For we heare no more of him in that language.