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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.
Some render, He would take me away as a little thing; But the mind of our translation is, he would take me away in a little time. The original word bears either signification,1 and so may the scope of the text; My Maker would take me away as a little thing, he would blow me away as a feather, or as dust, and crush me as a moth; and he would do it in a moment, in a little time; all the men of the world, yea the whole world is but a little thing before God, and he can quickly take both away. (Isa: 40.15.) Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the Balance; Behold, he taketh up the Islands as a very little thing. Now if Whole Islands, if all nations are such little things as drops and dusts, then, what is any one particular man, how big soever he be? And how soon can God take him away! Little things are taken away in a little time. So the word is used in the second Psalm (v. 12.) If his wrath be kindled but a little, or but, as a little thing; if the wrath of Christ be kindled only so far that you see but a spark of it, blessed are they that trust in him; There is no standing before the least wrath of the great God, by the greatest of the sons of men.
Some render, He would take me away as a little thing; But the mind of our translation is, he would take me away in a little time. The originall word beares either signification,1 and so may the scope of the text; My Maker would take me away as a little thing, he would blow me away as a feather, or as dust, and crush me as a moth; and he would doe it in a moment, in a little time; all the men of the world, yea the whole world is but a little thing before God, and he can quickly take both away. (Isa: 40.15.) Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the Ballance; Behold, he taketh up the Islands as a very little thing. Now if Whole Islands, if all nations are such little things as drops and dusts, then, what is any one particular man, how big soever he be? And how soone can God take him away! Little things are taken away in a little time. So the word is used in the second Psalme (v. 12.) If his wrath be kindled but a little, or but, as a little thing; if the wrath of Christ be kindled only so farre that you see but a sparke of it, blessed are they that trust in him; There is no standing before the least wrath of the great God, by the greatest of the sons of men.