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…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…
Author: Joseph Caryl

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.

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: printed by M. Simmons, 1655

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We do not lay up trifles and trash, but precious things, and treasure; we lay up our Plate and Jewels, our Gold and Silver; the word of God should be more to us than thousands of gold and silver, it is the most precious Jewell, 'tis treasure, and therefore it must be laid up.

We doe not lay up trifles and trash, but precious things, and treasure; vve lay up our Plate and Jewells, our Gold and Silver; the vvord of God should be more to us than thousands of gold and silver, it is the most precious Jewell, 'tis treasure, and therefore it must be laid up.

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Secondly, The heart is the Ark or Cabinet, in which the word must be laid up.

Secondly, The heart is the Arke or Cabinet, in which the word must be laid up.

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There was an Ark or Chest provided for the law (Exod. 25.21.) and that Ark was Christ, he was typified by it, and indeed the law would be too hot for our hearts, too hot to lye there if it had not first lain in the heart of Christ; we (since fallen) could never have been an Ark for it, if he had not been. The tables of the law were laid in the Ark, and the Ark (in which the law was put) had a mercy-seat which did cover it all over (The dimensions of the Ark and of the mercy-seat were exactly the same, two cubits and a half in length, and a cubit and a half in breadth, (Exod. 25.10.17.) so that nothing of the law could appear or rise up in Judgement against poor sinners. The propitiatory or mercy-seat covered all. Now as Christ hath been the Ark of the law to protect and cover us from the condemning power of it; so the hearts of believers must be the Ark of the law, where it must be laid up with a readiness of mind to yield our selves up to the commanding power of it. David prophesying of Christ saith (

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