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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 26-29
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Hence note; Hunger makes active.
We say hunger breaks thorough stone-walls or strong-holds. Whither will not the Eagle dig to satisfy her appetite? I need not stay upon the general truth; I would only add this, it is certainly so in spirituals. Soul hunger, our hunger after righteousness will make us active. Those Eagles, the Saints, having a strong appetite to the things of God, will dig for their satisfaction, they will seek after food for their souls till they are satisfied. Sometimes possibly there is a glut of food, and then they will scarcely look after it; but if once they are pinched with famine, then they look after food. That of the Prophet (Amos 8.11.) ⟨p. 485⟩answers this of the Text, I (saith the Lord) will send a famine among you: not a famine of bread, but of hearing the Word of the Lord. And what then? Why then they shall wander from sea to sea; and from the North even to the East, they shall run to and fro to seek the Word of the Lord, and shall not find it. The Eagle here seeks her prey & gets it; but they shall seek the Word of the Lord, and not have it, because they were unthankful for it, and unprofitable under it, when they had it. 'Tis a sad hunger to be pinched. with the want of the word, which is spiritual food; but that's a blessed hunger which is not from want of, but from a true and strong desire after the Word or spiritual food. True believers, abiding in a right frame, have a great desire and hunger after spiritual food, even when there is greatest plenty of it; when there is (as we say) a glut of it, they are not glutted with it; the more they are satisfied with it, the more they would have of it; their appetites and satisfaction are interchangeable; they are hungry, yet satisfied; they are satisfied, yet hungry; and therefore they are always seeking their spiritual prey. It is a sore judgment when they that have had much of this spiritual food, and have not had a hunger after it, are cut short and deprived of it. The Lord often lets those hunger after it in want, who have not hungered after it in enjoyment.