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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
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 39 › Verse 1-4
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2. Jesus Christ is so compared with respect to his lovingness; that's the Epithet which Solomon gives the Hind (Prov. 5.19.) Let her (thy Wife) be as the loving Hind and pleasant R•e. Now as the Wise should be tendered by her Husband as a loving Hind, so Jesus Christ is like the Hind for his exceeding lovingness to his Spouse or Wife. Christ is so full of love, that he is called love it self. One of the Ancients speaking of Christ dying, said My Love was crucified.
2. Jesus Christ is so compared with respect to his lovingness; that's the Epithete which Solomon gives the Hind (Prov. 5.19.) Let her (thy Wife) be as the loving Hind and pleasant R•e. Now as the Wise should be tendered by her Husband as a loving Hind, so Jesus Christ is like the Hind for his exceeding lovingness to his Spouse or Wife. Christ is so full of love, that he is called love it self. One of the Antients speaking of Christ dying, said My Love was crucified.
3. Jesus Christ is shadowed by the Hind, with respect to his sufferings, for he was hunted as a Hind with Hounds, with blood-hounds, with the hell-hounds of this world, the worst of wicked men. Therefore it is remarkable, that in the 22. Psalm, which is throughout a prophecy of Christ (the first words being the last ⟨p. 313⟩he spake in this world, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?) The title of that Psalm is, To the chief musician, upon Aijeleh Sahar; and if you would know what that signifies, look into the Margin of your larger Bibles, there you shall find, The Hind of the morning. Hunters use to single out that special Deer, Hart or Hind, early in the morning, which they purpose for game that day; signifying that Jesus Christ, who is so much spoke of in that Psalm, was a Hind, not only sorely and fiercely, but early hunted by wicked men to death.