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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 answer, we (who of our selves are a […] ⟨p. 208⟩by the blood of Jesus Christ, and being thus made nigh in our state, we draw nigh or acquaint our selves with him by several Acts. As first, To think or meditate of God, is to acquaint our selves with and draw nigh to God; meditation is an inward discourse and converse with God, it is a Soliloquy between God and the soul; acquaintance is got by Conference: when friends meet and confer, that doth not only begin, but confirm, strengthen, and heighten their acquaintance. Saints have many thoughts of God, and that's their acquaintance with God. How precious are thy thoughts to me, O God! (saith David, Psal. 139.17.) how great is the sum of them! when I awake I am still with thee. How was David still or ever with God? He was so in his thoughts, and meditations, in the actings & goings forth of his soul to him. Now he that is still or ever with a person, must needs be acquainted with him, I am still with thee, always meditating upon thee. We find him again in the same holy frame (Psal. 63.5, 6.) My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips; while I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches. As the Lord is ever thinking upon his people, they are written upon his heart, and graven upon the palms of his hand, and when his outward actings towards them are such, as may seem to intimate that his heart is withdrawn from all intimacy with them, yet even then he thinks most of them. This he acknowledgeth concerning Ephraim (Jer. 31.20.) Since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still. Since I spake against him, that is, since I spake against him by words of rebuke and correction, since I spake against him by rods of chastisement and correction, (as Ephraim found and confessed he had Thou didst chastise me and I was chastised) since I spake thus against him, I do earnestly remember him still. I remember him, and I remember him strongly, my heart is much upon him. And when the Lord saith thus, we are not to understand it, as a man will remember an Enemy, when he speaks against him; he'll remember him indeed, and that earnestly to plot mischief against him, and to execute his revenge; but the meaning is, I remember him in mercy, my affections go out to him, my bowels are moved towards him.