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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 22-23
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There is a time for every purpose under the Sun (Eccl. 3.1.) Men have times for their purposes, and so hath God (much more) for his; he hath his times for quietness and times for trouble. And as sin is the cause and source of all trouble, so when sin is ripe, trouble is ready. When men have filled up the measure of their sin, then God pouts down trouble upon them, or makes it a time of trouble, that they may taste and see, and be convinced how evil and how bitter a thing it is to sin against the Lord. The Amorites were full of iniquity, when God spake to Abraham (Gen. 15.16.) but their iniquity was not full, and therefore their time of trouble, the time when their Land spewed them out to make room for the Children of Israel, was not till a long time after.
There is a time for every purpose under the Sun (Eccl. 3.1.) Men have times for their purposes, and so hath God (much more) for his; he hath his times for quietness and times for trouble. And as sin is the cause and sourse of all trouble, so when sin is ripe, trouble is ready. When men have filled up the measure of their sin, then God pouts down trouble upon them, or makes it a time of trouble, that they may taste and see, and be convinced how evil and how bitter a thing it is to sin against the Lord. The Amorites were full of iniquity, when God spake to Abraham (Gen. 15.16.) but their iniquity was not full, and therefore their time of trouble, the time when their Land spewed them out to make room for the Children of Israel, was not till a long time after.
Fourthly Note; Times of trouble are specially known to, and appointed by God.