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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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I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins; if he search our hearts, then surely he searcheth all our ways, if he seeth our thinkings, then surely ⟨p. 132⟩he seeth our walkings.1 Therefore 'tis said (1 Sam. 2.3.) The Lord is a God of knowledge; the Hebrew is, The Lord is a God of knowledges; that is, all things fall under his knowledge; he is perfect in all knowledges, there is nothing knowable, but the Lord knows it; and by him actions are weighed: now the weighing of actions is more then the seeing of actions; many see that which they cannot weigh. He weigheth actions, that is, he takes not only the action it self, but every circumstance of it into Consideration; he takes his Balances, and tries fully, how much each ingredient weighs, and what it comes to. He weighs whole States, Kingdoms, and Nations. So it was said to the Babylonian Monarch Belteshazzar (Dan. 5.26.27.) Mene, God hath numbered thy Kingdom, and finished it, Tekel, Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. Thy counsels, thy policies, thy undertakings, the whole compass, all the contrivances of thy Government are weighed and found too light. And as God weigheth the actions of Princes, so of private persons. (Prov. 5.21.) The ways of a man (that is, of every man, even of the meanest man) are before the Lord, and he pondereth all his paths; he puts them into a Balance, and doth not only see them, but ponder or weigh them. David saith of some wicked men that they weigh the violence of their hands in the earth (Psal. 58.2.) though they do violence, yet they do it not violently, but with a kind of skill and deliberation. They do wrong and oppress with a show of Justice, whereof weights are the common Emblem. Now as some men do evil, not hastily, rashly, or all at once, but give it out by weight, and with a seeming gravity and zeal for justice. So the Lord doth never look over the ways of men rashly or hastily, but weighs them out even to a grain, yea to the dust of the balance he pondereth all their paths. That is, he knows them throughout. Therefore David (