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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.
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Man should show himself fair and meek to men, especially to a man in affliction.
Man should shew himselfe faire and meeke to men, especially to a man in affliction.
It is possible for a man, though he be but clay, as another man is, yet to clothe himself, as it were, with terror, yea as the neck of the horse is said to be clothed (Job 39.19.) with thunder. He may put on a kind of dreadfulness as a Garment, and appear very formidable to his brother. Some men indeed appear ⟨p. 190⟩to men as a Wolfe to a poor sheep, or as a Bear and Lyon to a Lamb. Though but clay, yet how scaringly do some men look and Lord it over their brethren! they will roar upon them like a Lion, and rend them like a Bear; clouds and darkness are in their faces, and storm sits upon their brows. There is a terribleness of man to man. Thus the holy Prophet (Isa: 25.2.) saith, The blast of the terrible one is like a storm against the wall. Yea, some men are not only dreadful, like savage beasts, but like devils, they even act or play the devil with their brethren. How far have they departed from their duty, and broken all the laws of love, which command us to be as God one to another, in kindness, in mercy and compassion? I grant, Magistrates by their place and office are said to be terrible, yea a terror, but it is to evil doers (Rom: 13.3.) Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil; that is, not to those whose works are good, but to evil workers. And to them they ought to be a terror; For they do not bear the sword in vain; that is, to hold it in their hands, or let it rust in the scabbard, and never strike with it; As they are Ministers of God, so avengers towards men, to execute wrath upon him that doth evil. Again, Gospel-Ministers in some cases are to be terrible, they may be Boanergesses, sons of thunder to the obstinate and rebellious, to the proud and presumptuous sinner; they must cut him out a portion to his condition, and save him (if it may be) with fear. But the general temper and carriage of the Ministers of the Gospel is meekness and gentleness, they should be full of love and of compassion, instructing even those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance, to the acknowledging of the truth. (2 Tim: 2.25, 26.) The Ministers of Christ must not deal out terror, till there be a necessity of it: And always they who do well, or are humbled for the evil which they have done, must be handled tenderly.