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A35538	An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1653 (1653)	Wing C777; ESTC R19353	930,090	1,092

Secondly Consider the wicked proud man as one whom God treadeth down Then Observe God punisheth sinners with that which is most crosse to their lusts What more crosse to a high-spirited man than to be brought low and who can be brought lower than he that is trodden down As God sometimes punisheth Drunkards with thirst and Gluttons with hunger and covetous persons with poverty There is one saith Solomon Prov. 11.29 that with-holdeth more than is meet he doubtless is a covetous man that doth so it tendeth to poverty So God punisheth proud ones by that which is most contrary to their nature he abaseth and layeth them low The Prophet tells us Isa 3.16 17. how the Lord would punish wanton women who were proud either of their natural beauty or artificial dresses and ornaments The daughters of Zion saith he are haughty and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes walking and mincing as they go and making a tinckling with their feet there 's their pride but what was their punishment the next words resolve us Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion and the Lord will discover their secret parts they were proud of that which covered their skin and therefore the Lord punisht them with scabs or covered their skin with scurfe and scabs and as there the Lord shews what he would bring upon so what he would take from them Vers 18. In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinckling ornaments about their feet and their Caules and their round tyres like the Moon And Vers 24. it shall come to pass that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink and instead of a girdle a rent and instead of well set hair baldness and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth and burning instead of beauty What could be more contrary to the pride of these women than that which the Lord brought upon them or punished them with What do proud women more desire than beauty and bravery And what do proud men look after but to be respected honoured and to have every one point the finger at them or bow the knee to them Now when the Lord blasts proud women in their beauty and bravery when he blasts proud men in their honour and estimation when he thus abaseth and treads them down he toucheth them in that which the spirit of pride prizeth most and with greatest regret parteth from Pride is a base height of spirit therefore the Lord abaseth the proud There are five words in the Text all tending directly to crosse the spirit of a proud man First He shall be abased Secondly He shall be brought low A proud man would fain be high he would sit at the upper end of the Table yea he would sit at the upper end of the World too but saith the Lord he shall be brought low Thirdly What would a proud man do He would tread upon the necks of all others but he shall be trodden under foot Fourthly Where would the proud man be He would be conspicuous in high places but he shall be hid in the dust Fifthly He would be lookt at by all men with admiration but saith God his face shall be bound in secret he loves to appear and make a fair shew in the flesh but he shall not appear at all .. Proud ones cannot get so high but God in his Justice will get above them and strip them of that wherein they have chiefly prided themselves Read Isa 14.11 12 13 14 24 25. and Isa 23.9 Those Scriptures tell us how the Lord deals with proud men according to their pride or rather contrary to their pride he gives them that which they most disgust and takes that from them which they most passionately desire Secondly Take wicked men in the common notion for those that do evil at the highest rate that draw iniquity with cords of vanity and sin as it were with cart-ropes Then Observe First Wicked men that is impenitent sinners high-handed sinners are in a very sad condition and shall come to a sad conclusion The Lord will tread them down Psal 9.16 17. The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands yea the wicked shall be turned into hell That is the utmost of sorrow and suffering shall be their portion Isa 3.11 Wo to the wicked for the reward of their doings shall be given them Isa 57.21 There is no peace saith my God to the wicked As the tumultuousness of their own spirits will not let them be at peace so neither will the righteousnesse of God Secondly From those expressions Tread down the wicked in their place hide them in the dust together bind their faces in secret Observe God will at last purge and rid the world of wicked men As wicked men would fain purge and rid the world of godly men they would destroy all the seed of the righteous so certainly God will destroy the wicked of the world and rid the world of them though not at once of every wicked man yet in their times and seasons that they shall not do the mischief which their hearts are full of The last of the Prophets speaks as much of the Lords vengeance upon all the wicked Mal. 4.1 The day of the Lord. speaking of some great day of the Lords appearance shall burn as an oven and all the proud yea and all that do wickedly shall be stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of Hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch 'T is utter ruin to be destroyed root and branch such shall the ruin of the wicked be Thus also the Prophet Isaiah comforts the Church Chap. 52.1 Awake awake put on thy strength O Zion put on thy beautiful garments O Jerusalem the holy City for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean The wicked of the world are the uncircumcised they have not the spiritual circumcision the circumcision of the heart these shall no more trouble Jerusalem nor tread in Zions Courts Nahum 1.15 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace O Judah keep thy solemn feasts perform thy Vows for the wicked shall no more passe through thee he is utterly cut off The Hebrew is Belial shall no more passe through thee That is such as cast off the yoke of Jesus Christ shall no more bring Judah under their yoke This is also witnessed by another holy Prophet Zech. 14.21 In that day there shall be no more the Cananite in the house of the Lord of hosts they shall no more mingle themselves with the faithful servants of God much less rule over them Canaanites have often been in the house of the Lord but the Canaanite shall not always be there God will sweep them out of his house Answerable to these prophesies speaks the last prophesie Rev. 21.27 Chap. 22.15 which

lingers nor slumbers as to the Lords time though it may seem to have done both in theirs The wicked how long soever they escape judgement are not preserved from it but onely reserved to it as followeth in the fourth and ninth verse of that Chapter As the fallen angels are reserved in everlasting chains of darkness that is in chains that will hold them fast enough for ever unto the Judgement of the Great Day or to the Great Day of Judgement Which intimates two things concerning the fallen Angels First That their torments are not yet at the greatest nor their sufferings at the highest Secondly That their punishment is unavoidable for they can never break nor file off those chains As I say the fallen Angels are said to be reserved to judgement in chains of darkness at the sixth verse of the Epistle of Jude so at the 13th verse of the same Epistle it is said that to seducers and false teachers who cause many to fall The blackness of dareness is reserved for ever they have it not but 't is reserved for them Their present impunity is no assurance of their future indemnity From the latter part of the verse where the time of trouble is called The day of battel and war Observe First Obstinate and impenitent sinners make war in a manner with God himself Though they send not a Herald formally to defie him yet a resolved progress in sin let God say what he will and do what he will is a real defiance of him or a bidding him do his worst Gigantes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dicti It was said of the old Giants men of great stature They were fighters against the Gods We may say men of all statures even dwarfs and pigmies for bodily stature raise war against the great God by presumptuous sinning Did not men make a war upon God by doing evil God would never make war upon them by sending evil Men are vain when they fall into sin but they are worse than vanity when they stand out in sinning Who saith the Lord Isa 27.4 would set briars and thorns against me in battel none but a mad-man will I would go thorow or as the Margin hath it march against them I would burn them together Can briars and thorns abide contending with God who is a consuming fire If God send forth an army of his meanest and most contemptible souldiers flies from the air lice from the earth even a mighty Pharaoh must call for a treaty and beg a parly If he command snow and hail much more lightning and thunder out of the clouds to fight against his enemies how soon are they overwhelmed and confounded 'T is best therefore never to begin this war and the next best is speedily to sue for peace Secondly Observe A day of battel and war is eminently a time of trouble There may be trouble where there is no war but where war is there cannot but be trouble War or the sword is not onely one of those four sore judgements but the first of the four with which God threatned Jerusalem to the cutting off or utter destruction of man and beast Ezek. 14.8 Every battel of the warrier is with c●nfused noise and garments rolled in bloud Isa 9.5 Confused noises are the musick of a battel and bloody garments the bravery of it then prize peace pray for peace That as the Apostle directs 2 Thess 3.16 The Lord of Peace himself would give us peace alwayes by all means For though that may be doubted and queried which some have fully asserted That the most unequal peace is to be preferred before the justest war yet the justest war may bring though peace and honour at last yet in the mean time innumerable troubles and evils with it Thirdly Note God can make any creature hurtful and afflictive to us Snow is of great use and serves much to advance the fruttfulness of the earth and is joyned with rain in that effect Isa 55.10 As the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven and returneth not thither but watereth the earth and maketh it bring forth and bud c. by the concurrent blessing of God So c. Snow as well as rain is a blessing to the earth not an affliction yea snow is used by some as a delicacy to cool their drink in hot Countries and seasons which use of it was first found out by that monster of men Nero saith Pliny who thus declaims and p●otests against his intemperance Heu prodigia ventris ●li nivem illi glaciem potant paenasque montium in voluptatem gulae vertunt Plin. l. 19. c. 4. l. 31. c. 3. O the prodigies of luxury some drink snow others ice and so turn the punishments of the mountains so he calls snow and ice as to present sense into their own pleasure or to serve their voluptuousness Now though the snow according to Gods appointment be profitable to the earth and is used by some men to serve their pleasures and please their sensual appetite yet God can make a scourge of it if he pleaseth and destroy both our profits and pleasures by it He can afflict us not onely with strong and stormy winds not onely with dreadful thunder and lightning but with snow which is soft as wool and hail-stones which usually children sport and play with He hath destroyed sinners not onely by lions and bears and such like ravenous beasts but with frogs and mice with lice and locusts as was toucht before There are two things which shew the mighty power of God in the Creature First That he can make the most devouring and destructive creatures harmless and hurtless to us Thus he stopt the fiery furnace from so much as cinging a hair or impressing the least smell of burning upon those three worthies Dan. 3.27 He also shut the mouths of those hungry Lions not onely from tearing and totally devouring but from touching Daniel to hurt him chap. 6.22 Secondly That he can make the most harmless and hurtless creatures to hurt us How powerful is God who can crush the strongest man on earth by the weakest of his creatures There was much of God in it that some of his people of old through faith out of weakness were made strong waxed valiant being 't is like before of a fearful spirit in fight turned to flight the armies of the aliens Heb. 11.33 34. And is there not much of God in it when any sort of creatures weak and inconsiderable in themselves are armed by him to conflict with and get the victory over his strongest and proudest enemies Fourthly Note God can make a time of trouble terrible He hath a reserve of snow and hail in his treasury against the time of trouble against the day of battel and war As God can make a day of trouble comfortable to his servants he can be a hiding place from the wind and a covert from the tempest as rivers of water in a dry place and as the

life a blessing 1017. Why they before the Flood lived so long 1018. Six considerations shewing that long life is a blessing 1018. Long life in prosperity is a great blessing 1020 Light God the Author of it 118. Light wonderful in five respects 119 120. What light is hard to say 120. Light how useful 121. Light how comfortable 122. Eight Inferences from it 122 123. Light of the Gospel how great a mercy 125. Light swift presently spreads it self all over the face of the earth 130 131. Wicked men hate light 133. Light discovers 133 134. Light how it makes a change in things 136 Light where it dwelleth how answered by Geogra●hers how by Astronomers 164. Light and darkness have their bound their appointed places 167. What is the place of spiritual light and darkness 167 168. Light and darkness whether natural or figurative are at Gods dispose 169 170. The work of God in ordering light and darkness is wonderful shewed several wayes 171 172. Four things considerable in the light 196. Light how parted 197 198. God dispenceth light where he pleaseth 198 Lightning at the command of God 262 Limbus patrum what 152 Line what the stretching of it forth signifies in Scripture shewed in four things 62 63 Lion he bears four resembla●ces in Scripture 282 283. Lion is greedy of prey 286. God provides prey for Lions 287. Two Inferences from it 288 289 Locusts why so called 437 Love it ariseth from likeness 301. Love all duty must be done in love to God and man 918 919 Loyns girding of them what it imports 34. A fourfold use of girding the loyns 34 35 Lurdane who and why so called 36● Lusts of sinners stick close together like Leviathans scales 736 M Majesty proper to Kings 567. God is full of majesty 570. What that should work in man 571 573. The majesty of God is from himself mans from God 574. Majesty of man little to Gods 575 Maker God loves to be owned as a Maker 633 Man to do a thing like a man what it signifieth 36. Man is vile and how See Vile Masters of two sorts 16 Mazaroth what 247 Meats several forbidden the Jews and why 467 468 Meekness in dealing with others an imitation of God 872 Merchants in Hebrew called Canaanites and why 675 Mercy prevails with sinners more than wrath 922 Mists alwayes accompanied with calms why 103 Money why expressed in the Hebrew by a word which signifies a Lamb or Sheep 971 Months measured by the Moon or Sun their difference 316 Moon the power of it upon earthly things 254 Morning God should have morning or early praises and services 88. Morning light why the clearest light is expressed by it seeing noon light is clearer 741 Mother-Father by whom God was so called and why 227 Mouth what meant by laying the hand upon it 521 Muscovia the sudden change there in the Spring 232 Musculus a little fish the Whales guide 676 N Names it is a duty to give names to our children 999. Parents do well when they give names to their children which may mind them of the providence of God to them 1003. It is good to give names exciting to duty and vertue 1005 Nature course of nature keeps time constantly 117. Nature is content with a little 335 336. It is hard to change nature 360 Neck stiff-neck what it signifies in Scripture 745 Neesing what and how caused 739. Neesing a good sign of two things 739 Neighing of a Horse like thunder 432 New-birth see Birth O Obedience we should yeild ready obedience to all the commands of God 263. Full and compleat obedience what 913. We must obey without disputes or delays when God commands 915. The manner as well as the matter of obedience what 918 Occasion we should be watchful over that which hath been an occasion or instrument of sin 521 Oecolampadius his dying speech about light 168 Old age when a blessing 1019. Old age usually accompanied with many infirmities 1021. God can make old age comfortable 1021. Old age and death cannot be far asunder 1027. Some old men would be young again 1030 Omnipotency of God or that he can do all things how to be understood 790. Gods omnipotency limited by his will Inference from it 796. That God can do whatsoever he willeth a two-fold use of it 797 Opportunity a gate for action 457 Orion the nature of that constellation 241 242 Ornaments and Jewels may be worn 974. Four cautions about wearing them 974 Ostrich five ways described 385. Ostrich why expressed by a word which signifies a feather 393. The eve●ness of her feathers the embleme of justice 395. The Ostrich resembles a hypocrite in five things 395 396. That the Ostrich a foolish bird hath such fine feathers three inferences from it 398. Her eggs great and useful yet she careless of them 400. Some give two reasons why she leaves her eggs in the dust which agree not to the text 401. Her eggs many 405. How she is hardned against and hardneth her young ones 405. The Ostrich how said to be without fear though a very fearful creature 411. Ostrich hath little brain and is very deaf 414 415. Her swiftness in running a Proverb 419 P Pagan may deny Christ but cannot deny a God 722 Pain and sorrow in the creatures bringing forth young an effect of sin 320 Pambo his confession about keeping the tongue 521 Patience of God 185. Patience and quietness in every condition why 170 171. Peace hasten to make peace with God 194 Peacock beautiful and proud 386. what the Hebrew word signifieth 387. Proud men like the Peacock shewed in six things 391 392 Pegasus what 423 Pity should be shewed to the afflicted 965 Place a two-fold place of every man decreed 104. Good for all to keep their places 104 105 127 Play A playing life the life of a beast 644 Pleasure God gives man some creatures for pleasure 470. Some displease God most when they are taking their pleasure especially Falc●ners 470 Pleiades what 236. Their sweet influence what 237 Pliny his complaint of intemperance and luxury 183 Plowing before sowing both in a natural and spiritual sense 367 Power of God mighty 547. How far God sheweth or putteth forth his power 550. Inferences from it 552. The power of man is nothing to the power of God 554. Power of man not to be trusted for any good it can do us nor feared for any hurt it can do us 555 556. Power of God to be much meditated upon in two cases 557. Power twofold 717 Praise due to God for the work of creation upon several accounts 56 57. Liveless creatures praise God four ways 79. Then men should much more 80. God should be praised at the first appearance of any great work 88. Praise angelical work 89 Prayer obtains rain 260. We may pray for all that God hath promised 551. God gives beyond our prayers 551. The power of God should encourage us in prayer 553. Sense of wants