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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 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.
All these may be called their light, because they sometime enjoyed them; and their light in all or any of these notions, is said to be with-holden from them, not as if they had a right to hold it longer, but because they would fain have held it longer, if they might. Thus, from the wicked their light is with-holden; as if it had been said, they are totally and finally deprived of all their good.
Now, whereas light in the sense opened, is called their light, that is, the light of the wicked;
Note; Even the wicked have a title to light, or to good things.
God gives light or good things to the evil as well as to the good (Mat. 5.45.) He maketh his Sun to rise on the evil and on the good; even they who are evil and are daily doing evil, enjoy the light of the Sun, and the light of all outward good things, through the patience and goodness of God. Much more may the godly when they see the light or good of this world, look upon it as theirs, as a part of their inheritance here below. As hereafter all the godly shall have an inheritance among the Saints in light, so many of them have an inheritance of light here, the Sun is a piece of their portion. God having adopted them to be his children, the Sun is a debtor to them, and they may reckon it among their good things, though not as their good; God having provided better things for them than the light of this world, or of any good