An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…
Author: Joseph Caryl

An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty-seven lectures, delivered at Magnus near London Bridge. By Joseph Caryl, preacher of the Word, and pastor of the congregation there.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty-seven lectures, delivered at Magnus near London Bridge. By Joseph Caryl, preacher of the Word, and pastour of the congregation there.

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: printed by M. Simmons, 1655

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Again, we may consider Job here in a very afflicted Condition, what doth he do now? O that I knew where I might find him!

Againe, we may consider Job here in a very afflicted Condition, what doth he doe now? O that I knew where I might finde him!

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Note, Fourthly; God is most sweet to an afflicted soul.

Note, Fourthly; God is most sweet to an afflicted soule.

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The presence of God is sweet, precious, and delicious to Saints at all times, but then sweetest when they find most bitterness in the world. How pleasant is the love of God when we are sensible of mans hatred? Some good men have so much sweetness and love in the world, that they cannot so well relish or taste the sweetness of the love of God; though indeed nothing argues the Excellency ⟨p. 321⟩of the spirit of a Saint, then this,¹ that the sense of the love of God to him, takes off the relish of all creature-love, in the midst of his highest Enjoyments of it. That soul is purely spiritual, which having abundance of worldly enjoyments, riches, friends, relations, all that he can desire, yet in the affluence and highest float of all these can say, that the sweetness which he tasteth in God drowns the relish of all these, and makes them as tasteless as the white of an Egg in comparison of that sweetness which he hath tasted in the goodness of God; this is spiritualness in the very height of it; but usually God is then sweetest to us when the world is bitterest to us. Afflicted souls make most hast after God; and it is well to do so; it is a very sad sign, the worst Symptom that can appear upon the souls of any, when afflictions draw them off from God, or when they grow cold in their affections towards God, while the love of the world grows cold towards them. The Prophet (

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