A81199:1166
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Behold, I go forward.
Behold, I goe forward.
1The word is applied in Scripture to signify both a priority in time, and a priority in place. Some Interpret it here of time, I look to the times which were before, and now are past. In which sense the word is used (2 King. 19.25.) Hast thou not heard long ago? That is, hast thou not heard of the times which are forward, or which have been before. So (Prov. 8.23.) Wisdom thus speaks, I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, ere ever the earth was. So we translate it; the Hebrew is, I was set up from everlasting, from the head of time, before the earth was. Christ was before the head of time, or the beginning of time; we translate it here as referring to a place; Behold, I go forward, that is, as some render, I go Eastward, or toward the East. The world ⟨p. 361⟩Considered in it self hath neither forward nor backward, but man being considered as setting himself to the Sun-rising (for that's the natural posture of man) then forward is Eastward, the Sun riseth in the East. And then backward is Westward. The left hand is the North, and the right hand is the South; Such is the position of every man standing with his face to the East. Thus here, Behold, I go forward, that is, to the East, or I go Eastward; for a man may go forward, in a large sense, though he go to the North, or to the South, towards East or West, which way soever he goes, he goes forward. But to go forward,2 according to this strict notion is to go Eastward, not only because the Jews and Arabians were wont to worship toward the East, but especially because man doth naturally turn himself toward the East, or the Sun-rising. So the word is used (