A35538:1301
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
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 ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 39 › Verse 1-4
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.
Fifthly, They who hunt the wild Goats are at a very dangerous pleasure, they often fall upon the rocks, and sometimes fall from ⟨p. 310⟩the rocks. Is it not so with those who without cause pursue good men? have they not a dangerous service of it? get they not many a fall? The wicked (saith David, Psal. 37.12, 13.) plotteth, or (as the Margin hath it) practiseth against the righteous, he gnasheth upon him with his teeth. But shall it go well with him who doth this evil? The next words answer, The Lord shall laugh at him, for he seeth that his day is coming. What day? surely a black day, even the day of his destruction; which is yet further confirmed in the 14. and 15. verses of the same P•alm. The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation, or the upright of way. But shall this end well with them? or shall it be well with them in the end? The next words tell us what their end shall be, even this, which is a dreadful end, Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
Sixthly, 'Tis observed of these wild Goats, that when they seem to be very near falling from the rock and high places, yet they fall not, and that though they fall they take little or no hurt at all. Some say they have a natural art to save themselves, they know how to fall upon their feet, and so escape without harm. This also is applicable to the case of godly men, they are often near falling, yet they do not fall, and when they fall, they take no hurt; they have a divine art to preserve themselves; and 'tis a truth, that though they do receive hurt in the flesh, yet their spirit or better part takes no hurt. Though a good man fall (into affliction or temptation) he shall not (saith David, Psal. 37.24.) be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. Yea, though he falleth (saith Solomon,