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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
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.
The mighty man.
The Hebrew is, The man of arm; and it is usual in Scripture to call a strong man, a mighty man,1 or a man in Authority, a man of arm. (Ezek. 22.6.) Behold the Princes of Israel Every one of them were in thee to their power to shed blood; The Hebrew is, they were to their arm; that is, as far as they could reach forth their arm, or to the utmost of their power to shed blood, that is, to do mischief and wrong, to afflict and vex others even unto death, or the shedding of their blood. They who are evil know not how to bound themselves in doing ⟨p. 72⟩evil; if they want not power, they seldom want will to do it more and more. Thus the Prophet reproves that perverse generation; Behold thou hast spoken and done evil as thou couldest (Jer. 3.5.) That is, to the utmost Extension of thy ability and opportunity. As those Princes shed blood to their arm, or as far as they could reach out their power; So did this people; And as the power of man, so the power of God is Expressed by his arm (Job 40.9.) Hast thou an arm like God? Canst thou thunder like him? That is, hast thou power like God? (Esa. 30.30.) The Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall show the lighting down of his arm, with the Indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire; The revenging power of God, like a bird of prey, hovers over the heads of wicked men, but at l•st it lights down, and (as the word rather signifies) rests upon them.
The Hebrew is, The man of arme; and it is usuall in Scripture to call a strong man, a mighty man,