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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
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Which makes a 6th step of this wickedness; For so David describes his enemies (Psal: 38.16, 17.) They rejoice when my foot slippeth; for I am ready to halt, or (as we put in the margin) for halting. There is a double halting, a halting by transgression, and a halting by affliction; that I conceive David chiefly spake of in that place, because he presently adds in the close of the 17th verse, And my sorrow is continually before me. He shows his enemies possessed with the same evil spirit, and in the same posture (Psal: 35.15.) In mine adversity, or, in my halting, they rejoiced. The same word is used in this Psalm for adversity which we had in the 38th for halting. This is as true of evil ⟨p. 214⟩men, as halting is taken in the other notion, for sinning. The wicked are as, if not more, ready to rejoice at falls, or halts, by sinning, as at falls or halts by suffering. In both these cases (as David found in this 35th Psalm, v. 15.) the very abjects will tear the best of men (as they did David) and not cease. But what do they tear? their flesh if they can; but to be sure (and so 'tis meant there) their good names and reputation by slanders and accusations. O how contrary is this practice and that joy to the spirit of the Gospel! The Apostle tells us, the Grace of charity utterly abhors it (1 Cor: 13.6.) Charity rejoiceth not in iniquity. It neither rejoiceth in doing iniquity it self, nor to charge others with iniquity.
Which makes a 6th step of this wickednesse; For so David describes his enemies (Psal: 38.16, 17.) They rejoyce when my foot slippeth; for I am ready to halt, or (as we put in the margin) for halting. There is a double halting, a halting by transgression, and a halting by affliction; that I conceive David chiefly spake of in that place, because he presently adds in the close of the 17th verse, And my sorrow is continually before me. He shewes his enemies possessed with the same evill spirit, and in the same posture (Psal: 35.15.) In mine adversity, or, in my halting, they rejoyced. The same word is used in this Psalme for adversity which we had in the 38th for halting. This is as true of evill ⟨p. 214⟩men, as halting is taken in the other notion, for sinning. The wicked are as, if not more, ready to rejoyce at falls, or halts, by sinning, as at falls or halts by suffering. In both these cases (as David found in this 35th Psalme, v. 15.) the very abjects will teare the best of men (as they did David) and not cease. But what doe they teare? their flesh if they can; but to be sure (and so 'tis meant there) their good names and reputation by slanders and accusations. O how contrary is this practice and that joy to the spirit of the Gospel! The Apostle tells us, the Grace of charity utterly abhorres it (1 Cor: 13.6.) Charity rejoyceth not in iniquity. It neither rejoyceth in doing iniquity it selfe, nor to charge others with iniquity.