An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
Author: Joseph Caryl

An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666

[16], 1036, [26] p. · 442k words · Wing C777 · ESTC R19353

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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 31-33

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God can stop those things from comforting us, and those persons from showing us any favour, whose dispositions are as benign to us, as Pleiades are to the earth; and he can give us favour in their eyes, who naturally are as churlish as Nabal, and ⟨p. 246⟩as sharp as Orion to the earth. He can make a Wolf a Shepherd, and those a safety to his servants, whose hearts were to swallow them up. The earth shall help the woman, that is, the worst of the world, the Church. God made Ravens feed Elijah (1 Kings 17.4.) And he said of Cyrus, whom he calls a ravenous Bird, (Isa. 46.11.) He is my Shepherd (Isa. 44.28.) Thus the Lord looseth the bands of Orion. And when he hardens their hearts against us, who formerly were tender towards us, or when he turns their hearts to hate us, who formerly loved us and showed us favour, then the Lord may be said to bind the sweet influences of Pleiades. What sweet influences of favour did the people of Israel receive from Pharaoh and the Egyptians, at their first coming thither, and long after? yet afterwards, what grievous Task-masters were they to them? their favours were all restrained and changed into yokes and bands: whence was this? The Psalmist answers fully (Psal. 105.25.) He (that is God) turned their heart (that is, the heart of the Egyptians) to hate his people, to deal subtly with his servants, and cruelly too. Thus the Power and Name of God is both ways magnified. Whenas we have the most benign Pleiades dropping down sweet influences upon us, God can stop them; and when we have the hardest bands of Orion upon us, the Lord is able to loose them. This glory is due to God in all the changes which we meet with in this world, whether from good to bad, from the favours to the frowns of men; or from bad to good, from their frowns to their favours, from their bands to their embraces: all is of God. And I conceive the scope of God in these questions, was chiefly to bring Job to that conclusion. The next verse bears the same sense.

God can stop those things from comforting us, and those persons from shewing us any favour, whose dispositions are as benigne to us, as Pleiades are to the earth; and he can give us favour in their eyes, who naturally are as churlish as Nabal, and

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Joseph Caryl, An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,… (London, 1666), ch. 38, verse 31-33, p. 247. EEBO-TCP A35538.

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Joseph Caryl 1602–1673

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M. and S. Simmons

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1666

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[16], 1036, [26] p.

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Wing C777 · ESTC R19353

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