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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
But my grief is more and greater then my complaint.
But my griefe is more and greater then my complaint.
Therefore I cannot be justly accused of rebellion against God, because I complain.
Therefore I cannot be justly accused of rebellion against God, because I complaine.
Again, The text is thus rendered;1 Even to day the sharpness or bitterness of my complaint remaineth, or my sorrow is as it was. I am no way eased but rather more afflicted by what you have said for the easing of my affliction. An improper plaster doth but inflame, not at all heal, the wound. So that, as according to the former interpretation, he took off their charge of impatience, contumacy, and rebellion against God, according to the mind of this he shows the weakness and insufficiency of what they had spoken, as to the allay of his sorrow, and the curing or satisfying of his distempered spirit. So that here he seems to renew and confirm that opinion which he had given of his friends in their procedure with him (Chap. 13.4.) Ye are forgers of lies, ye are all Physicians of no value: O that ye would altogether hold your peace, and it should be your wisdom. And again (Ch. 16.2.) Miserable Comforters are ye all; Shall vain words have an end? or what emboldeneth thee that thou answerest. So here, ye have done nothing yet effectually to remove my complaint: I am like a poor patient, who having been long under the Physicians hand, and suffered many painful applications, is yet as far from a cure as the first hour of his undertaking. Even to day the bitterness the sharpness of my diseased mind remaineth. I have been in pain (as the Church speaks,