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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 may be trouble where there is no war, but where war is, there cannot but be trouble. War or the sword, is not only one of those four sore judgements, but the first of the four, with ⟨p. 188⟩which God threatened Jerusalem, to the cutting off or utter destruction of man and beast (Ezek. 14.8.) Every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood (Isa. 9.5.) Confused noises are the music of a battle, and bloody garments the bravery of it; then prize peace, pray for peace, That (as the Apostle directs, 2 Thess. 3.16.) The Lord of Peace himself would give us peace always by all means. For though that may be doubted and queried, which some have fully asserted, That the most unequal peace is to be preferred before the justest war; yet the justest war may bring, though peace and honour at last, yet in the mean time innumerable troubles and evils with it.
There may be trouble where there is no war, but where war is, there cannot but be trouble. War or the sword, is not onely one of those four sore judgements, but the first of the four, with ⟨p. 188⟩which God threatned Jerusalem, to the cutting off or utter destruction of man and beast (Ezek. 14.8.) Every battel of the warrier is with c•nfused noise, and garments rolled in bloud (Isa. 9.5.) Confused noises are the musick of a battel, and bloody garments the bravery of it; then prize peace, pray for peace, That (as the Apostle directs, 2 Thess. 3.16.) The Lord of Peace himself would give us peace alwayes by all means. For though that may be doubted and queried, which some have fully asserted, That the most unequal peace is to be preferred before the justest war; yet the justest war may bring, though peace and honour at last, yet in the mean time innumerable troubles and evils with it.