A65313:13
Seven sermons on several select subjects preached
Seven sermons on several select subjects preached by Mr. Tho. Watson ...
London : s.n., 1689
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SERMON I.
Job 14.14. All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.
THIS Book relates the History of Job's sufferings: he was a tall Cedar in grace, yet this Cedar grew in a Valley of Tears. Religion gives no Charter of Exemption from trouble. Job's trials were so sharp, that he began to grow weary of life, and was willing to have a Writ of Ease; to have his pass and be gone, Job 14.13. Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave! This holy man was much afflicted in his meditations of his latter end: He walked among ⟨p. 2⟩the Tombs, and walked into his Grave before it was digged, and by frequent thoughts laboured to make death familiar to him. All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come.
THIS Book relates the History of Iob's sufferings: he was a tall Cedar in grace, yet this Cedar grew in a Valley of Tears. Religion gives no Charter of Exemption from trouble. Iob's tryals were so sharp, that he began to grow weary of life, and was willing to have a Writ of Ease; to have his pass and be gone, Iob 14.13. Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the grave! This holy man was much afflicted in his meditations of his latter end: He walked among