An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Even so would he have removed thee out of a strait into a broad place. As if he had said, God who useth and loveth to deliver the poor out of affliction, ¹would also have delivered thee out of thy affliction hadst thou been humbled under thy affliction, hadst thou fallen down before him, hadst thou submitted the matter to him, and not disputed it with him as thou hast done, hadst thou confessed his justice, and not accused it or complained about it, even so would he have removed thee, &c. The word which we translate to remove, signifieth also

Even so would he have removed thee out of a strait into a broad place. As if he had said, God who useth and loveth to deliver the poor out of affliction, ¹would also have delivered thee out of thy affl•ction had'st thou been humbled under thy affliction, had'st thou fallen down before him, hadst thou submitted the matter to him, and not disputed it with him as thou hast done, hadst thou confessed his justice, and not accused it or complained about it, even so would he have removed thee, &c. The word which we translate to remove, signifieth also

1. 1[Greek or Hebrew] est proprie incitare, fere ad malum, a radice [Greek or Hebrew]〈non-Latin alphabet〉 est proprie incitare, fere ad malum, a radice 〈non-Latin alphabet〉

To move or to persuade; because he that persuades another,¹ moveth or removeth him from his opinion or intendment, or from what his practise was before, and brings him to be or do somewhat that he did not, or was not, before. To be persuaded is to be inwardly moved, to be moved in mind: And therefore they who persuade or entice others to evil, are said to turn them from the Lord, and to thrust them out of the way which the Lord commandeth them to walk in (