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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
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The least sin deserves a breaking; but when the arm of sin is grown very high, we may say the Lords arm cannot hold, he must break such high arms. The Prophet Jeremiah (chap. 6.6.) speaking of Jerusalem, saith, This City is to be visited; how visited? There is a twofold visiting:
The least sin deserves a breaking; but when the arm of sin is grown very high, we may say the Lords arm cannot hold, he must break such high arms. The Prophet Jeremy (chap. 6.6.) speaking of Jerusalem, saith, This City is to be visited; how visited? There is a twofold visiting:
First, In favour, care, and kindness.
Secondly, In wrath and judgement.
Usually when the Scripture speaks of visiting a City or a Land, it is meant in wrath and in judgement. Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? (Jer. 5.9.) Surely I shall, there is no avoiding my visitation. What kind of visitation is meant, the next wods evidence, Shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this? To be visited with vengeance and wrath, is a sad Visitation, and so was Jerusalem to be visited. But why was the City Jerusalem to be visited in wrath? there's no City whose inhabitants are so just and righteous, but the Lord may visit them in wrath; but of this City the Lord said, it is wholly oppression; they are given up to oppression, every one is oppressing and wronging his brother; now when they sinned at this rate, when their arm was thus high in wickedness, then it was to be broken. There is a righteous God that judgeth the earth; and therefore the high arm of unrighteousness shall be broken.