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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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In these three attributes, Justice, truth, and power, God is honoured, when the wicked are destroyed, and therefore it cannot be uncomely for the Saints to rejoice when they are destroyed. The Lord by his Prophet assures the Church his Jacob that all the enemies thereof shall be scattered. (Is. 41.15.) Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument, having teeth, thou shalt thresh the Nations & beat them small, & shalt make the hills as chaff, &c. The mountains & th•••lls to be threshed, were the mighty ones of the earth, setting themselves against the ways and designs of heaven. The Instrument or flail wherewith they were to be threshed was the worm Jacob (ver. 14.) God did not so much make an Instrument for the worm Jacob, as he made the worm Jacob his Instrument. Behold, I will make thee, (not for thee) a new threshing Instrument; But when the worm hath done this great work, when he hath threshed the mountains, and made the hills as chaff; What must he do then? The 16th verse tells, Thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, 1and shalt glory in the holy One of Israel. Glorying is more then rejoicing: Glorying is a kind of rapture or ecstasy of the soul. As there is an ecstasy of Infatuation, so there is an ecstasy of Gracious admiration. Fools and madmen are besides themselves for want of reason; the wisest and best of men, are besides themselves through the abundance of the Grace of God in them, ⟨p. 192⟩and the abundance of the goodness of God towards them. When the goodness of God acted mightily towards us, meets with the Grace of God acting mightily in us, we are lifted up so far out of our selves, that we can see nothing in our selves, and then in whom or in what can our rejoicing be, but in the Lord the holy one of Israel.
In these three attributes, Justice, truth, and power, God is honoured, when the wicked are destroyed, and therfore it cannot be uncomly for the Saints to rejoyce when they are destroyed. The Lord by his Prophet assures the Church his Jacob that all the enemies thereof shall be scattered. (Is. 41.15.) Behold, I will make thee a new sharpe threshing instrument, having teeth, thou shalt thresh the Nations & beat them smal, & shalt make the hills as chaffe, &c. The mountains & th•••lls to be threshed, were the mighty ones of the earth, setting themselves against the wayes and designes of heaven. The Instrument or flayle wherewith they were to be threshed was the worme Jacob (ver. 14.) God did not so much make an Instrument for the worme Jacob, as he made the worme Jacob his Instrument. Behold, I will make thee, (not for thee) a new threshing Instrument; But when the worme hath done this great worke, when he hath threshed the mountaines, and made the hills as chaffe; What must he doe then? The 16th verse tells, Thou shalt rejoyce in the Lord,