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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…
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.
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1655
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Note, Fourthly; God is most sweet to an afflicted soul.
Note, Fourthly; God is most sweet to an afflicted soule.
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 (Amos 6.7.) foresheweth a very great calamity that should fall upon the people of God; Thou shalt go Captive with the first that go Captive, &c. And in the 8 verse; The Lord God hath sworn by himself saith the Lord the God of hosts, I abhor the Excellency of Jacob, and hate his Palaces (As if he had said, though I have invested him with excellent privileges, & though he make a great profession of my name, yet because of his provocations and unworthy walkings) I will deliver up the City and all that is therein, there's Captivity; then comes Pestilence in the 9h verse; And it shall come to pass, if ten men remain in one house that they shall dye; and they shall not bury them after the ordinary way, but burn them, and the nearest relations shall do it. (Ver. 10h.) And a mans Uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, is there yet any with thee?