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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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Whence note; That the righteous are often preserved in common calamities.
(Psal. 20.8.) They are brought down, and are fallen, but we are risen and stand upright, our substance is not cut down; God takes special care of his own people; they are under a promise; there can be no greater safety, no better security then to be under a promise; the promise is the best shelter in a storm, and the best shield against the dart. The Apostle Peter gives us two famous examples of this, (2 Pet. 2.5, 6.) God spared not the old world, but saved Noah &c. bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly. And having turned the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them with an overthrow &c. and delivered just Lot &c. From both which examples he concludeth (v. 9.) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the Godly out of temptation, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of Judgement to be punished. When judgement begins at the house of God, what shall the end of them be that obey not the Gospel of God? as the same Apostle speaks (1 Pet. 4.17.) It is a sure argument to the wicked that they shall be judged, when they see God bringing judgements upon his own ⟨p. 201⟩house and people; but the wicked are many times judged while the house and people of God are preserved and untouched; and when both good and bad, both the innocent, and the wicked are wrapped up in the same calamity, when they are (as it were) thrust together into the same furnace, the Lord makes a difference, they are not cut down as the wicked are cut down, nor consumed as they are consumed. When the righteous are cast into the fire they are purged but not consumed, but (as it follows in the second part of this conclusion, showing the state of the wicked) The remnant of them the fire consumeth.