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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.
Hence Observe.
First, To be in affliction, is to be in a painful condition; there is little ease in the stocks.
First, To be in affliction, is to be in a painfull condition; there is little ease in the stocks.
No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous (Heb: 12.11.) To be under a cross is be under a burden.
No chastning for the present seemeth to be joyous but grievous (Heb: 12.11.) To be under a crosse is be under a burden.
Secondly, Afflictions keep us under restraint. He hath little liberty as well as little ease that is in the stocks: afflictions hold us in, they are as a prison to us. Afflictions are a restraint two ways; First, to our corruptions; yea, through the grace of God, afflictions are more then restraints to corruption, they become the death of corruption, they are appointed (among other services) for the mortifying of corruption, that it may not live in us, much more are they a restraint to corruption, that it may not get out, nor work in us as before. Many times, when a good man hath the world at will, his corruptions think to have their will too; and when he is at liberty, lusts would grow licentious: Therefore God seeth it necessary to put his servants in the stocks, that their lusts may be in the stocks too. Thus he told the Church (Hos: 2.6.) Behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall that she shall not find her paths. The thorn-hedge was as a stocks to stop them that they should not walk disorderly, nor act inordinately as they had done. This course God takes