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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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Thirdly, God trieth man by a kind of examination; David speaks of that (Psal. 17.3.) Thou hast proved mine heart, thou hast visited me in the night, thou hast tried me and shalt find nothing. In the night the soul is free from business with the world, and therefore freest for business with God, & then did God prove and visit David, that is, examine and sift him, by calling to his mind all his ways and works in former passages; And the issue of this trial was, he found nothing, not that his soul was empty of good things, or that there was nothing evil in him, but God upon examination found nothing of that evil in him, which some men suspected him of, Namely, either any ill will or evil design against Saul, in reference to whom he called his cause a righteous cause, or the right (ver. 1.) Hear the right, O Lord, &c. Thus God tried David; And thus earthly Judges try men; They examine them, and their case, that's called a trial; in this third sense ⟨p. 381⟩we are chiefly to understand the meaning of Job in this place. Job had long before undergone a trial by prosperity and praise, Job was at that time under trial by affliction, he had past the former and was under the latter, yea, he was deep in it,1 but as yet he had not come to this trial of Examination, or to a judiciary trial, which he earnestly begged of God. All men shall come to such a trial in the Great day. We must all appear before the Judgement seat of Christ, that every one may receive the thingt done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad (2 Cor. 5.10.) Some expound Job appealing here to that Judgement. But I conceive that the whole tendency of his discourse aims at an earlier Judgement or day of trial then that. And though (possibly) his expectation was not great, if any at all, that God would grant him a private Session (as we may call it) for his personal trial, yet (to show that he had not the least suspicion of being acquitted in that day whensoever it should be, he importunately professeth he could wish it might be the next day, and that he would refuse no pains nor travel, for the procuring of such a day, were it to be obtained;
Thirdly, God tryeth man by a kinde of examination; David speakes of that (