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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.
First, To the besieging of a City, snares are round about thee,1 thou art now hemmed in on every side with-troubles; as Christ threatens Jerusalem; Thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, &c. A trench is but a great snare to catch men, as men catch birds and vermin in snares. Or
First, To the besiedging of a City, snares are round about thee,1 thou art now hemde in on every side with-troubles; as Christ threatens Jerusalem; Thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, &c. A trench is but a great snare to catch men, as men catch birds and vermine in snares. Or
- 1Hostile aliquid & obsidionale significat.
Secondly, The Allusion may be to Imprisonment, thou art compassed with strong walls, and shut in with gates, thou art shackled with iron snares.
Secondly, The Allusion may be to Imprisonment, thou art compassed with strong walles, and shut in with gates, thou art shackel'd with iron snares.
Thirdly, The words may allude to hunting and fowling, in such disports nets and snares are set to take the intended game. Snares are often spoken of in Scripture, to intimate or set forth the afflictions and sorrows that entrap and hold the sons of men. So that to say, Snares are round about thee, is no more but thus, troubles are round about thee; and these snares are sometimes set by the hand of man, sometimes by the immediate hand of God. Good things are often made a snare to the undoing of evil men, and evil things are often made a snare to the troubling, though not to the undoing of good men. But I shall not prosecute this allusion, having spoken of it at the 18th Chap: v. 6, 7, 8. where Job complains that God had taken him in his snare; as also in the 19th Chapter at the 5th verse.