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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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Yet I conceive that Job in this passage, doth but put forth the nobler and higher actings of his faith, and that he speaks this, ⟨p. 327⟩not as forgetting the distance of dust and ashes, from the glory of God, or from the glorious God, but as remembering the promise, and as insisting upon his privilege as a believer who is invited to come, and to come with boldness to the throne of Grace. For though that promise was not given out as to the formality of it in those times, yet the virtue of it was, though in a lower degree then now. To come with boldness to the throne of grace,1 sounds much like this, to come even to his seat, and this Job did not only as emboldened by the clearness of his conscience towards men, but as by the freeness of the Grace of God in Christ towards him. In pursuance whereof it is well conceived by a learned interpreter, that there is a metonymy, in the word which signifies a prepared seat, that is, such a seat as whereon God presents himself to poor sinners, prepared and ready to give them both admittance to himself and a gracious audience of their requests and suites. The word which we translate seat, signifieth a prepared place, a place fitted, implying somewhat special and peculiar unto God. Heaven is called the habitation of his holiness and of his glory (Isaiah 63.15.) yet wheresoever the Lord is, he makes it a heaven. Thus also he can make any place where he is a hell. The wicked shall be punished with everlasting fire from the presence of the Lord, (2 Thes. 1.9.) that is, the very presence of the Lord shall be a hell and torment to them. The Lord can be both terrible and gracious in his presence any where; yet he is somewhere more graciously, some where more terribly present. Some cannot bear those expressions, The Throne of God, the seat of God, heaven, and hell. As if these were but the Imaginations, fancies and fictions of mans brain. But the Lord hath his seats and dwelling places, whence and where he declares himself, both in mercy and in judgement, both in his holiness and in his glory. (Isa. 6.1.) I saw also the Lord sitting upon his Throne, high and lifted up. Thus the Lord manifested himself in vision to the Prophet; and David confesseth, Thy Throne O God is for ever and ever (Psal 45.6.) that is, thy Power and Sovereignty. David speaks not of a material Throne such as Kings have;