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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 36 › Verse 7
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.
And if that other sort of Scriptures should be objected against his perpetual watching over the righteous, or that he never withdraws his eyes, which say, he hideth his face, and turns himself away from them. I answer, Those Scriptures are all of them to be understood according to the former interpretation, the Lord hideth himself, as to sense and present appearance, but he never hideth himself, as to the real continuance of his love and care towards his Church or People. This Objection some made to one of the Ancients; the Lord (said they) may seem to withdraw his eyes from the righteous, because he suffers them to fall under the oppression of the unrighteous.1 No, saith he, The Lord beholds the righteous, though they perish by the hand of the unrighteous; yea, when it is worst with them, the Lords Eye is upon them for good, both to see how they carry it, or behave themselves in their Sufferings, and likewise to provide a full reward and recompense for them after all their sufferings.
And if that other sort of Scriptures should be objected against his perpetual watching over the righteous, or that he never withdraws his eyes, which say, he hideth his face, and turns himself away from them. I answer, Those Scriptures are all of them to be understood according to the former interpretation, the Lord hideth himself, as to sense and present appearance, but he never hideth himself, as to the real continuance of his love and care towards his Church or People. This Objection some made to one of the Ancients; the Lord (said they) may seem to withdraw his eyes from the righteous, because he suffers them to fall under the oppression of the unrighteous.1 No, saith he, The Lord beholds the righteous, though they perish by the hand of the unrighteous; yea, when it is worst with them, the Lords Eye is upon them for good, both to see how they carry it, or behave themselves in their Sufferings, and likewise to provide a full reward and recompence for them after all their sufferings.
- 1Famulos suos nunc m gis, respicit, nam jam praevidet, quid eis miserecorditer recompenset. Greg: in loc: