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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 15-17
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.
Some render, That which resteth, or abideth on thy Table; that is, thy meat, and thy drink, thy wine, and thy oil, that which thou feedest upon, should be of the best and most nourishing, not bare commons, not ordinary fare, but ⟨p. 286⟩Full of fatness.
Some render, That which resteth, or abideth on thy Table; that is, thy meat, and thy drink, thy wine, and thy oyle, that which thou feedest upon, should be of the best and most nourishing, not bare commons, not ordinary fare, but ⟨p. 286⟩Full of fatness.
Fatness is put in Scripture to express the best of things; if often signifieth the best of spiritual things, (Psal. 36.8.) They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house. The house of God is the Church of God, and, God keeps a good house, there are fat things, and they who worship and wait upon him, they shall have abundance of them, their full satisfaction: the fatness of Gods house, is the riches of Grace, the best of Gospel-Ordinances and promises, the best of Gospel-comforts and mercies, these are the fatness of the house of God; these are the things which the Apostle intended while he told the Gentiles, (Rom. 11.17.) That they were partakers of the rest and fatness of the Olive tree. Thus also spake the Prophet, (Isa. 25.6.) In this mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make a feast of fat things: what, of such fat things as the Epicures of the world surfeit upon, Sheep, and Oxen, &c? no; the feast of fat things which the Lord will make to his people is of spiritual things, they shall have much of Christ, much of grace here, and an assurance of glory for hereafter; This is the feast of fat things. And though the Lord give to any of his servants the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction; though the fig-tree should not blossom to them, though they should have neither Sheep in the fold, nor Calves in the shall, yet they may daily sit at this feast of fat things, and be filled with joy in the Lord, (