A Directory for the Afflicted: Being Select Extracts from the First Fourteen Chapters of the Rev. Joseph Caryl's Commentary on the Book of JobD. Brown, 1824 - 266 pages |
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... better , and every evil we feel not so bad . Afflictions coming from the crea- ture are as the rod of Moses upon the ground , a biting serpent , but , considered in the hand of God , they are like the serpent in the hand of Moses , a ...
... better , and every evil we feel not so bad . Afflictions coming from the crea- ture are as the rod of Moses upon the ground , a biting serpent , but , considered in the hand of God , they are like the serpent in the hand of Moses , a ...
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... better than life . " Verse 6. As for that night , let darkness seize upon it ; let it not be joined unto the days of the year , let it not come into the number of the months . ' " The word here used signifies thick dark- ness joined ...
... better than life . " Verse 6. As for that night , let darkness seize upon it ; let it not be joined unto the days of the year , let it not come into the number of the months . ' " The word here used signifies thick dark- ness joined ...
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... better than these to believers , from sin , Satan's temptations , and the law of the members warring against the law of the mind . · Perhaps Job , reflecting upon his folly in wishing he had never been born , tries to mend it with ...
... better than these to believers , from sin , Satan's temptations , and the law of the members warring against the law of the mind . · Perhaps Job , reflecting upon his folly in wishing he had never been born , tries to mend it with ...
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... better than the living , he personi- fies a natural man , who says it is better to die than live under oppression . But to bear a bur- den well is more desirable than deliverance from it , if , while bearing it , we can be doing good ...
... better than the living , he personi- fies a natural man , who says it is better to die than live under oppression . But to bear a bur- den well is more desirable than deliverance from it , if , while bearing it , we can be doing good ...
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... better . 6 " 2d , That it is no easy thing to bear re- proof . To take a reproof well is as high a point of spiritual wisdom as to give it in a proper manner . " 3d , That in some cases it is a duty to re- prove however it may be taken ...
... better . 6 " 2d , That it is no easy thing to bear re- proof . To take a reproof well is as high a point of spiritual wisdom as to give it in a proper manner . " 3d , That in some cases it is a duty to re- prove however it may be taken ...
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afflictions afraid anger answer argument Behold Bildad blessing Book of Job cast cause cerning chapter children of God children of men Christ comfort complain confesses counsel creature curse darkness death desire despise distress doth duty earth Eliphaz evil eyes favour fear foolish free grace friends give glory God's godly grace grave happy hath heart heaven Hebrew Hence observe holy honour hope humble hypocrite iniquity Job seems Job's JOSEPH CARYL judgment labour live Lord mercy mourn ness never outward pain pardon perish Pharisee pray prayer prosperity Psal Psalm punishment reason riches righteous Sabeans saints Satan servants sins sorrows soul speak spirit strength thee thine hand things thou hast thou shalt thou shouldest tion tongue trouble trust truth Verse 11 Verse 12 Verse 20 wicked wilt wisdom word signifies wound wrath Zophar
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Page 25 - Now there was a day when the sons of GOD came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Page 13 - Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side ? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 25 - And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Page 19 - While he was yet speaking there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house : and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead, and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
Page 7 - And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
Page 3 - Job ; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
Page 19 - While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped to tell thee.
Page 35 - And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him for they saw that his grief was very great.
Page 199 - Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; a land of darkness, as darkness itself, and of the shadow of death, without any order and where the light is as darkness.
Page 17 - The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.