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 12-15

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.

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But it may be enquired, What is this light called their light, which is with-holden from them?

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I answer, First, The light of their prosperity and peace, the light of the good things of this wo•ld.

:591p. 139

Secondly, The light of the Sun,¹ even that shall be with-holden from them, they shall be shut up in close and dark prisons and dungeons; they shall not have the light of the Sun, who have abused that light, or have done such things in the dark, as the Sun would even blush to look on.

1Deus lucem subducit impiis, i. e. vita illos orbat; Frangitquo eorum superbiam & tyrannidem. Codur.

:592p. 139

Thirdly, The light of their life, or their life shall be withholden from them; that is, they shall be put to death for their wickedness.

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