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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 › Verses 8-10
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They may be in a condition of captivity, they may be in real fetters and cords, or they may be in a state of affliction, as bad to them as fetters and cords. I have heretofore, more than once, spoken of the afflictions of the righteous in the opening of this Book, therefore I shall not stay upon it here. Only take notice that the righteous may come into fetters, &c. not only for trial of their graces, but for the punishment of their iniquities; they possibly have not kept close to the bands of duty, and therefore God brings them into the bands of calamity. As wicked men say in the pride and stoutness of their hearts, (Psal. 2.3.) Come, let us break their bands, and cast their cords from us; that is, those bands of duty and cords of obedience which the Gospel layeth upon them; So, ⟨p. 222⟩in a degree, good men, righteous men, may throw off the cords of obedience, and the bands of duty, through the violence of corruption and temptation, walking loosely & vainly for a season, they may break the bands of the Gospel Covenant, and the cords of the Commandment, and when they do so, God will not spare them, but will throw them even into the bands of trouble and into the cords of affliction; they shall know the fetters and bands of affliction, threatened in the Law, when they have not carefully kept to the rule of the Law.
They may be in a condition of captivity, they may be in reall fetters and cords, or they may be in a state of affliction, as bad to them as fetters and cords. I have heretofore, more than once, spoken of the afflictions of the righteous in the opening of this Book, therefo•e I shall not stay upon it here. Only take notice that the righteous may come into fetters, &c. not only for tryall of their graces, but for the punishment of their iniquities; they possibly have not kept close to the bands of duty, and therefore God brings them into the bands of calamity. As wicked men say in the pride and stoutness of their hearts, (Psal. 2.3.) Come, let us break their bands, and cast their cords from us; that is, those bands of duty and cords of obedience which the Gospel layeth upon them; So, ⟨p. 222⟩