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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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Secondly, By a soft heart, is not here meant the patient heart; that's a soft heart in Scripture, a heart which is willing to submit to and bear the burden that God lays upon it: in this sense God makes the heart soft, when, as he accustoms his to sufferings, so he fits them to suffer. Man naturally is (like Ephraim, Jer. 31.18.) As a Bullock unaccustomed to the yoke, both of active and passive obedience. Only God makes man submit his stiff neck and hard heart to a suffering condition, and to answer the call of his sufferings. Pharaoh is said to have a hard heart, because he did not yield to what God called him to by Judgements, he had not a patient but an unquiet spirit under the plagues sent upon him, nor did he obey what he was summoned to by the Lords voice in those terrible plagues. Now, though I grant that an heart made soft in patience is an excellent frame of heart, yet we cannot understand it so here; for Job had a patient heart, yea he had abundance of patience before, as he fully discovered at the very beginning and breaking out of his troubles; he did not flinch at the Cross, but did embrace it. The Apostle exhorts all Christians to Remember the patience of Job. And we must apply that Scripture to Job before he came to this point. Therefore the softness of heart intended in this text is somewhat besides this.
Secondly, By a soft heart, is not here meant the patient heart; that's a soft heart in Scripture, a heart which is willing to submit to and beare the burden that God layes upon it: in this sence God makes the heart soft, when, as he accustomes his to sufferings, so he fits them to suffer. Man naturally is (like Ephraim, Jer. 31.18.) As a Bullock unaccustomed to the yoake, both of active and passive obedience. Onely God makes man submit his stiff neck and hard heart to a suffering condition, and to answer the call of his sufferings. Pharaoh is sayd to have a hard heart, because he did not yeeld to what God called him to by Judgements, he had not a patient but an unquiet spirit under the plagues sent upon him, nor did he obey what he was summoned to by the Lords voyce in those terrible plagues. Now, though I grant that an heart made soft in patience is an excellent frame of heart, yet wee cannot understand it so here; for Job had a patient heart, yea he had abundance of patience before, as he fully discovered at the very beginning and breaking out of his troubles; he did not flinch at the Crosse, but did embrace it. The Apostle exhorts all Christians to Remember the patience of Job. And wee must apply that Scripture to Job before he came to this poynt. Therefore the softnes of heart intended in this text is somewhat besides this.