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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of the book of Job being the substance of thirty-five lectures / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1664
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-fifth, Th… › Chapter 35 › Verses 9-13
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Both God and Men shall hear of them: There they cry. An afflicted condition, is a complaining condition; Nature being pinched will speak. I (said Job, Chap. 7.11.) will not refrain my mouth, I will speak in the anguish of my heart, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. I mourn in my complaint, said David, ⟨p. 87⟩(Psal. 55.2.) The title of the 102d Psalm runs thus; A prayer of the afflicted when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before God.
Both God and Men shall hear of them: There they cry. An afflicted condition, is a complaining condition; Nature being pinch't will speak. I (said Job, Chap. 7.11.) will not refraine my mouth, I will speak in the anguish of my heart, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. I mourn in my complaint, said David, ⟨p. 87⟩(Psal. 55.2.) The title of the 102d Psalm runs thus; A prayer of the afflicted when he is overwhelmed, and powreth out his complaint before God.
Note; Secondly, Some in their afflictions do nothing but cry, nothing but complain.
Elihu doth not say, There they repent, and there they humble themselves, and there they turn to God, but there they cry; that they are troubled is the all, the only thing that troubles them. 'Tis said before, God teacheth man more than the beasts of the Earth; but many in a day of affliction, do no more than the Beasts of the Earth. A Beast, when hurt, will cry, he will rage and roar; and that's as much as many men do when they are hurt, though God hath taught them more, many lessons more, which they should be practising under sorrowful dispensations. The Ox loweth, and is taught no more, when he wants fodder, the Ass brayeth, and is taught no more, when he wants grass; but man is taught to act repentance, and faith, and patience, and submission to the will of God in want. How sad is it when we hear nothing but flesh cry in man, or when nothing is cried for by man but flesh, that is, the supplies of Nature, in the day of his distress. As 'tis said of those (