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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.
Thirdly, Because Elihu, being about to speak in that great cause, sets God before him, and God in his judgements, in case he should speak or do amiss.
Thirdly, Because Elihu, being about to speake in that great cause, sets God before him, and God in his judgements, in case he should speake or doe amisse.
Note, Thirdly.
They that do or speak evil, have reason to expect evil at the hand of God.
They that doe or speake evill, have reason to expect evill at the hand of God.
If I should flatter (saith Elihu) my Maker would soon take me away. I have reason to fear he will; not that God takes away every sinner as soon as he sins, (God rarely useth Martial Law, or executes men upon the place, we should live and walk more by sense then by faith if he should do so) but any sinner may expect it, God (I say) is very patient and long-suffering, he doth not often take sinners away, either in the act, or immediately after the act of sin. Yet there is no sinner but hath cause to fear, lest as soon as he hath done any evil, God should make him feel evil, and instantly take him away. David prayeth (Psal: 28.3.) Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity. There is a two-fold drawing away with the workers of iniquity. First, to do as they do; that is, wickedly. Thus many are drawn away with the workers of iniquity; and 'tis a good and most necessary part of prayer, to beg that God would not thus draw us away with the workers of iniquity, that is, that he would not suffer the workers of iniquity to draw us away into their lewd and sinful courses. Secondly, there is a drawing away to punishment, and execution. In that sense (I conceive) David prayed, Lord draw me not away with the workers of iniquity, who are taken away by some sudden stroke of judgement; though I may have provoked thee, yet let not forth thy wrath upon me, as thou sometimes doest upon the workers of iniquity: do not draw me out as cattle out of the pasture where they have been fed and fatted, for the slaughter. Every worker of iniquity is in danger of present death, and may look that God will be a swift witness against him: though most are reprieved, yet no man is sure of that.