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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35438	An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the Book of Job being the substance of XXXV lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1656 (1656)	Wing C760A; ESTC R23899	726,901	761

same dungeon and be bound with the same chaine he may be slaine with the same sword burnt at the same stake eaten up with the same famine So that both in the materiality and likewise in the graduality of it it may be the same on both yet upon one it is a correction upon the other a judgement What then is this correction And where will the correction and the judgement part I conceive that the infirmities of the Saints and the sins of the wicked differ as judgements and corrections differ Now look upon those sins which we call the infirmities of the Saints they may be the same in the matter the same in kind yea possibly the same in the degree I meane respecting the outward rule given by God and the outward act committed by man with the sins of those who know not God or who in sinning go against their knowledge Then where doe they part Surely where corrections and judgements part And where is that Especially in two things First in the manner how 2. In the end why they are inflicted First the Lord never corrects his children with such a heart as he carries in laying trouble upon the loynes of wicked men The heart of God is turned toward his children when he corrects them but his heart is turned from a wicked man when he punishes him The Lord is even pained that I may speake as the Scripture often doth in this point after the manner of men I say the Lord expresses himselfe as pained as grieved as if every stroake went to his owne heart when he strikes his children When he is about to strike he is as it were unresolved whether he shall strike or no and as soon as he hath stricken he as it were repents that he did strike them All which motions of his heart the Lord shews us in the highest strains of passionate Rhetorick Hos 11. 8 9. But when he takes the wicked in hand to punish them we reade of no passion ascribed to him but these delight or joy and the effect of them laughter hatred or indignation and the effect of these mocking at them Pro. 1. 26. I will laugh at your calamity and mock when your fear cometh And when he resolves upon the destruction of his enemies he speaks as if then he had unburden'd himselfe and his heart were lighter then before Isa 1. 24. Ah I will ease me of my Adversaries and avenge me of my enemies Secondly the difference is as broad about the end When God layes the rod of correction upon his child he aimes at the purging out of his sin at the preventing of his sin at the revealing of a fatherly displeasure against him for his sin The Lord would only have him take notice that he doth not approve of him in such courses When these ends are proposed every affliction is a correction But the afflictions of the ungodly are sent for other ends First to take vengeance on them Secondly to satisfie offended justice justice cries aloud against them and they have nothing to interpose but their bare backs or naked soules The Lord comes as a severe Creditor and bids them pay that which they owe or suffer and to prison because they cannot pay Secondly observe A child of God is in a happy condition under all corrections As man in a naturall or civill capacity at his best estate is altogether vanity Psal 39. 5. So in a spirituall capacity he is altogether happinesse in his worst outward estate Happy is the man whom God corrects he is a gainer by correction If he looseth any thing it is but the drosse of his corruptions By this therefore Isa 27. 9. shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sinne Corrections are not sent to take away his comforts but to take away his corruptions That fire which God kindles upon his children shall burne only as it did the materiall bonds of the three children in Daniel the spirituall bonds of their iniquity that they may be more free to righteousnesse Againe Crrections are not manifestations of wrath but an evidence of his love and of their son-ship Whom I love I chastise Rev. 3. 21. And if ye endure chastning God dealeth with you as with sons Heb. 12. 7. The love of God is better then life and to be a son of God is the highest priviledge of his love Where shall we be happy if not in that which assures us of such love and of love in such a relation Hence the Apostle concludes 2 Cor. 4. 12. So then death worketh in us death that is our daily sufferings and endurings He speakes indeed especially of sufferings for the truth from the cruell hand of man but it is true likewise of all sufferings under the correcting hand of God Those stroakes which are deadly to our bodies may yet worke for us And what worke they The seventeentth verse answers the question Our light afflictions which are but for a moment worke for us a farre more exceeding and eternall weight of glory The sufferings of the Saints are active and their passions opperative But how doe they worke Not by way of merit or earning Our blood cannot oblige God but by way of preparation The Lord sends afflictions to fashion and cleanse our hearts as fit vessels to hold an exceeding weight of glory Our bearing the heaviest afflictions doth not weigh so much as the least graine of glory yet they fit our hearts for an exceedingly excellent weight of glory We cannot say properly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they worke any glory but by an Hyperbole in speech we say they work towards an Hyperbole in glory And if any doubt can a man be happy when his outward comfort is gone Doubtlesse he may For a man is never unhappy but when he hath lost that wherein happinesse doth consist The happinesse of a godly man doth not consist in his outward comforts in riches in health in honour in civill liberty or humane relations therefore in the losse of these he cannot be unhappy His happinesse consists in his relation to and acceptance with God in his title to and union with Jesus Christ While he keeps these priviledges and these he shall keepe for ever what hath he lost if he loose all besides these He hath not lost any thing discerneable out of his estate Suppose a man were worth a million of money and he should loose a penny would you think this man an undone man No His estate feeles not this losse and therefore he hath not lost his estate If a man should buy a thousand measures of corne or cloath and should loose the given handfuls of the one or inches of the other would ye say that this man had lost either his corne or his cloath All the things of the world and they only are looseable which a godly man hath are not so much to his estate as a penny to a million They