A81199:1253
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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When Christ came in the flesh to redeem us, he came with fire also to purge and sanctify us, and he comes with fire whensoever he comes in the Spirit to comfort and enlighten us, and at last when he comes in glory, he will come with fire to try, examine, and judge us. When he comes to try us thus, All the faithful shall come forth as Gold, but the wicked and their works will burn and be consumed. When Saints come to trial at last they will stand, and when they are tried here, they will mend; first, their Corruptions will be the more outed, and, secondly, their graces will be the more acted. We may read this issue of their trial (Zech. 13.9.) And it shall come to pass that in all the Land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and dye, but the third shall be left therein. Whether we take the Land in particular for Israel and the people of the Jews, or typically, for all professors throughout the world, two parts shall be cut off and dye, but the third shall be left therein. And what will God do with them? or how will he deal with them? We may see what at the 9th verse. And I will bring the third part through the fire (of affliction and examination) and I will refine them as silver is refined, and try them as gold is tried (and what will be the issue of this?) And they shall call on my name, and I will hear them. Here faith and prayer (in which all graces are exercised) are put for all graces. When they are in this fire they shall call on my name, 1and I will hear them, and I will say (when they are in the fire) it is my people, and they shall say, the Lord is my God. They who pray in the fire of trial, or in the fiery trial, declare evidently, that they are Gold in the fire; but they to whom God saith in the fire of their trials, ye are my people, and they who (being still in the same fire) can say, the Lord is our God, are declared both by God and themselves eminently, that they are gold in the fire. They are as the choicest gold, as the Gold of Ophir, of whom the Lord saith, (by an act of distinguishing love) ye are my people, ⟨p. 386⟩and who can say to God (by an act of appropriating faith) the Lord is our God. Surely then Saints lose nothing in the fire (but what is not worth the holding) while God finds and owns them, and they find and own God in the fire.