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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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First, The displeasure of God, by what means or instrument soever put forth is called a flood; whether is be by sword, or by famine, or by pestilence, it is a flood. (Esa. 8.7.) We read war Compared to a flood; Now therefore behold the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many (what were these waters?) Even the King of Assyria, and all his glory; the King of Assyria with his Armies, in which he gloried, or which he counted his glory, were the waters of the river, strong and many) and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his hands (that is, the former Limits of his Dominion) And he shall pass through Judah, he shall overflow and go over. There The Sword is Compared to a flood, or to a mighty river, which bears down all before it. The same Prophet speaks again in the same Language (Esa. 59.19.) When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a Standard against him; as if it had been said, The enemy shall come rushing in like a mighty torrent but the Spirit of God, like a more mighty ⟨p. 149⟩wind, shall blow and rush upon him, causing him to recoil and give back, or (as our Margin hath it) put him to flight. Again (Ezek. 13.) The Prophet foreshows the approaching calamity upon those who had seduced the Jews into a vain security; which is there called, the building of a wall with untempered mortar. A wall he calls that prophecy, because it promised safety, and defence; but he calls it also a wall built with untempered mortar, because that false prophecy was a weak prophecy, and should shortly fall. The manner how, he gives us in the notion of the Text (vers. 13.) Wherefore thus saith the Lord God, I will even rent it with a stormy wind in my fury, and there shall be as an overflowing shower in mine anger, &c. that is, wrath shall be upon it (the Babylonian Army was the special judgement in which that wrath was expressed) and that shall be as an overflowing shower. Great and continual showers will try the strongest buildings, and quickly overthrow the weak. A wall of untempered mortar is no match for a storm. As our Saviour also assures us in the close of his Sermon on the Mount, (Matth. 7.27