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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
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Secondly, That he brings some of them (as it is said of Daniel with the Prince of the Eunuchs, Chap. 1.9.) into favour and tender love with Kings and Princes.
Secondly, That he brings some of them (as it is said of Daniel with the Prince of the Eunuches, Chap. 1.9.) into favour and tender love with Kings and Princes.
Thirdly, That the Lord hath often advanced righteous persons to Thrones and Kingly Dignities. And when-ever the Lord advanceth any of the righteous,1 he makes good this promise, because in the exaltation of one, the faith and piety of all righteous persons, or the whole kind of them, is honoured and exalted.
- 1Etiamsi id externè non fiat semper, tamen omnium fides & pietas quorundam piorum exaltation honoratur. Coc.Etiamsi id externè non fiat semper, tamen omnium fides & pietas quorundam piorum exaltatione honoratur. Coc.
Fourthly, To be sure, all the righteous shall be with Kings on the Throne hereafter. Christ hath purchased, and is gone to prepare a Kingdom for the righteous, and will give them a better Crown, than any this world affords, an incorruptible one. As now the righteous are spiritual Kings, or Kings in a spiritual sense, (Rev. 1.6.) that is, they rule over and keep in subjection, their own lusts and corruptions, pride, ambition, love of the world, wrath, envy, and whatever else in them doth rebel and exalt it self against the knowledge of God; yea, they as Kings (in this world) conquer the world by faith, (