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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Secondly, (Say they) because he complained, that he could not get admittance unto God, nor audience with him, which was a further aggravation of his sorrow. This he prosecutes from the third verse to the end of the ninth. O that I knew where I might find him, that I might come even to his seat, I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments, I would know the words which he would answer me &c. As if (according to the scope of this exposition) he had said, I have waited long under my pressures and burdens, with my petition in my hand, yea I have tendered up my petition, but as yet I can get no answer; Alas, I am greatly afflicted, yet, so far from being relieved, That I cannot be heard, I would therefore get near God, to spread and order my cause before him. To be heard and to be relieved, are often in Scripture sense the same thing, and always not to be heard signifies as much as not to be relieved. Till the Lord gives us his ear, he never gives us his hand, therefore Job must needs think himself far from being helped while he thought that he was not heard.

Secondly, (Say they) because he complained, that he could not get admittance unto God, nor audience with him, which was a further aggravation of his sorrow. This he prosecutes from the third verse to the end of the ninth. O that I knew where I might finde him, that I might come even to his seate, I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments, I would know the words which he would answer me &c. As if (according to the scope of this exposition) he had sayd, I have waited long under my pressures and burdens, with my petition in my hand, yea I have tendered up my petition, but as yet I can get no answer; Alas, I am greatly afflicted, yet, so farre from being releeved, That I cannot be heard, I would therefore gett neare God, to spread and order my cause before him. To be heard and to be releeved, are often in Scripture sence the same thing, and alwayes not to be heard signifies as much as not to be releeved. Till the Lord gives us his eare, he never gives us his hand, therefore Job must needs think himselfe farre from being helped while he thought that he was not heard.

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Thirdly, Because he complained that the Lord did thus afflict and try him, when he already knew what he was, and what he would be after his trial by the sorest afflictions; when he knew that he was innocent, & that he would continue & hold out in his innocency to the end. That he would not be weary of well-doing, though under the worst of sufferings. (Ver. 10, 11, 12.) He knoweth the way that I take, &c. As if he had said; The Lords needs not do this to try me, for he knoweth well enough who I am, and the way that I go; he knoweth both the frame of my heart and the course of my life; he knoweth how it is with me now, and that I shall be found such […] I have often professed my self to be, when he hath kept me to the utmost of his purpose in this fiery furnace of affliction. When he hath tried me I shall come forth as gold, that is, when all's done, he knows that I shall hereafter approve my self upright in heart, and that (through his grace, already bestowed upon me) I have hitherto kept his way, and not declined nor gone back from the commandments of his lips, yea that I have esteemed the words of his mouth more then my necessary food. Thus Job is conceived complaining upon this account, that he should be so extremely afflicted, though the Lord knew his way, and that he was both a lover of his Word, and a keeper of his Commandments, and that he would persevere with joy in keeping them to the end, though he should not see the expected and desired end of those sorrows.

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