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A81199	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.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1655 (1655)	Wing C769A; ESTC R222627	762,181	881

and this agrees well with the former because he that performeth and payeth according to his word hath peace both in himselfe and with other men An honest pay-master sits downe in peace and prevents his owne trouble But to the matter He that is God performeth The thing that is appoynted for mee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quia reddet statutum meum Mont. 'T is the same word which we had at the 12th verse of this Chapter I have esteemed the words of his mouth more rhen my necessary or my appoynted food Here wee render it the thing that is appoynted for mee The word is often used in the 119 Psalme and signifieth any Ordinance Law Statute or Decree whether divine or humane for all these are the appoyntments eyther of God or man about things to be done or forborne And as God makes appoyntments of things which he would have us doe so of such things as himselfe will doe to or concerning us Master Broughton translates it here as we doe at the 12th verse implying necessary food or the provisions of this life Because he furnished mee with my dayly bread That which wee render the thing that is appoynted for mee he renders my dayly bread Another learned in that language Perfecit necessaria mea Vatab i. e. perfecit quicquid mihi erat opus ipse corporis mei artifex omnium quae in me sunt agrees in the same sence and varyes very little in words Hee hath performed or accomplished those things which were necessary for mee or all those things which I stand in need of He who set up this frame of my body and hath given mee this life hath administer'd all things needfull for the upholding of this body and for the maintaining of this life And so the words carry Jobs sence or acknowledgement of the fatherly care and kindnes of God towards him What his soule desireth even that he doth for hee furnisheth mee with dayly bread and hee performeth what is necessary for me or supplyeth all my wants According to which sence Mr Broughton renders the second part of the verse also And many such graces are with him Thus Job spake at the 10th Chapter ver 8.12 Thy hands have made mee and fashioned me together round about Thou hast granted me life and favour and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit So that the minde of these translaters seemes to be this That Job would set forth the unchangeablenes of Gods decree in giving him his appoynted comforts as well as sorrows Yet rather by this appoyntment or the thing which God had appoynted him wee are to understand as I conceive his afflictions onely and his sorrow As if he had said Quicquid deme decrevit absolvet sive in bonum sive in malum Merc Non me missum faciet donea impleverit quae in statuit Merc I finde that God will doe what he hath a minde to doe how grievous soever it be eyther to the minde or flesh of man for he performeth the thing that hee hath appoynted for mee hee hath appoynted me to sorrow and I have had sorrow and trouble store And he will not dismisse me or let mee goe out of his hand till he hath performed every title of what he hath appoynted for my portion of sorrow and suffering in this world And to shew how much he was assured of this He speakes in the present tense Not he will performe but he performeth c. As if he had sayd He will as surely doe it as if he were now a doing it Hence observe First That God will certainly performe all his appoyntments concerning man He is able to doe it and he will doe it This poynt was largely insisted upon from those words of the former verse He is in minde who can turne him God doth what he hath a minde to doe therefore I shall not here stay to shew the certainty of Gods performing what he hath appoynted but to shew the appoyntment of all things which he performeth Take the observation thus formed Whatsoever God performeth or doth to any man was before appoynted or decreed for or concerning him All the workes of God in time were his decrees before time hee performeth the thing that is appoynted and appoynted by himselfe and his appoyntments are as himselfe is from everlasting Whatsoever God doth we finde it under an appoyntment First and especially as to the buisines in hand the afflictions and suffering of his servants All their sufferings are under an appoyntment Micah 6.9 The Lords voyce cryeth unto the City and the man of wisdome shall see thy name heare ye the rod and who hath appoynted it As if he had said your selves by your sins are the procurers of it we the Prophets are onely the reporters and publishers of it But God himselfe is the appoynter of it As publique and national rods so private or personall rods are appoynted And as often as we feele their smart we should consider their appoyntment The Apostle 1 Thes 3.3 moves the Saints to a steadines of spirit under affliction upon this ground that no man should be moved by these afflictions he doth not mean that wee should be without sense of our afflictions stroakes and sufferings but his meaning is that we should neither be moved by impatience under them to murmure at them nor be moved by undue feares to faint in them why for your selves know that wee are appoynted thereunto The afflictions are appoynted to us and wee are appoynted to them and your selves know it This doctrine hath been published to you that afflictions are under a divine appoyntment that there is a decree of God about them And that First as to the matter of what sort the affliction shall be secondly as to the measure or degree how great the affliction shall be Thirdly the appoyntment reaches the season and that twofold First when the affliction shall begin and secondly how long it shall continue every thing in affliction is under an appoyntment Secondly As our afflictions so also our comforts are under an appoyntment As the Lord hath appoynted the Gall so the honey of our cup as the cold and winter so the warme and summer seasons of our lives Isa 61.2 3. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath annoynted me to preach good tidings to the meeke c. To proclaime the acceptable yeare of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God to comfort all that mourne to appoynt unto them that mourne in Sion and this appoyntment in execution is 〈◊〉 fullfilling of the first appoyntment by decree to appoynt unto them t●● mourne in Sion to give unto them beauty for ashes the oyle of Joy fo● mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heavines And as our spirituall comforts so our temporall our outward salvations and protections are under an appoyntment Isa 26.1 Salvation shall God appoynt for walls and bulwarkes Thirdly As the wall of

when the ungodly fall and not fall into sin themselves I answer First The righteous rejoyce at the fall of the wicked as blessing God who hath kept their feete from those wayes in which the wicked have fallen As 't is a great mercy to be kept out of those ill wayes to be kept from fiding with those corrupt interests in the pursuit of which we see many broken so 't is a duty to rejoyce that we have not walked in their way whose end we see to be nothing els but destruction Secondly The righteous have cause to rejoyce blesse God when they see the wicked fall because themselves are saved keepe their standing because themselves have escaped the danger and the Lord hath been a banner of protection over them in the day when the wicked fell Moses after the destruction of Amaleck built an Altar and called the name of it Jehova-Nissi Exod. 17.15 that is to say The Lord is my banner And in like cases the joy of the Saints is not properly in the destruction of the wicked but in their owne deliverance through the mighty power good hand of God with them It is the presence of God with them the appearance of God for them which is the gladnes of their hearts Thirdly The righteous then rejoyce because the Church and people of God are in a fayre way to peace when the Lyons are destroyed the sheepe are in safety when the Wolves and the Beares are cut off the flock rests quietly so in this case when men of devouring cruell spirits wicked and ungodly ones are removed the flocke of God the sheepe of his pasture feed quietly none making them afrayd The fall of the enemies of Sion is the establishment of Sion yea in a great measure of mankinde As the Prophet most elegantly sets it forth Isa 14.6 7 8. He who smote the people in wrath with a continuall stroke he that ruled the Nations in anger is persecuted and none hindereth The whole earth is at rest and is quiet they breake forth into singing yea the firre-trees rejoyce at thee and the Cedars of Lebanon saying since thou art layd downe no feller is come up against us How often have wicked men in power felled not onely the Firre-trees and Cedars of the world but the goodly trees of righteousnesse in the Lords plantations have they not therefore reason to sing when such fall seing the Fellers themselves are then felled and fallen Fourthly Joy ariseth to the righteous because God is honoured in the fall of wicked men And that 's their chiefest joy That God is honoured is more joy to the righteous then that themselves are saved how much more then then that the wicked are destroyed There is a threefold honour arising to God when the wicked fall First God is honoured in his justice such a day is the day of the declaration of the righteous judgement of God as the Apostle speakes of the great day of Judgement Rom. 2.5 Thou after thy hardnesse and impenitent heart treasurest up to thy selfe wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgement of God Some doe even question the justice of God when wicked men prosper but he is vindicated in his justice when wicked men fall It cannot but please righteous men to see the righteous God exalted or God exalted in his righteousnesse They know and beleeve that God is righteous when the wicked prosper Jer. 12.1 But when the wicked are punished they proclaime his righteousnes Then they sing the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lambe saying Great and marvailous are thy workes Lord God Almighty just and true are thy wayes thou King of Saints Who shall not feare thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name c. for thy Judgements are made manifest Rev. 15.3 4. The Lord is alwayes alike Just but it doth not alwayes alike appeare how just he it And as that God is just is the faith and stay of the Saints so the appearances of his justice are their joy and triumph Secondly God is honoured much in the attribute of his truth in the truth of his word in the truth of his threatenings when the wicked are punished God hath spoken bloudy words concerning wicked men not onely in reference to their future estate in the next life but to their present estate in this Say to the wicked it shall be ill with him the reward of his hands shall be given him But what is this reward There are two sorts of rewards First rewards of love and favour according to the good which we have done Secondly rewards of wrath and anger poenal rewards according to the evill which we have done Now when the Lord puts these poenal rewards into the hands of the wicked or powres them upon their heads he is honoured in his truth as well as his justice for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it As the promises are yea and Amen 2 Cor. 1.20 so also are the threatnings unto the glory of God by us But as when David saw his life in danger every day he began to question the truth of God in the promise that he should live to reigne and fit upon the throne of Israel for saith he Psal 116.11 when things went thus with him I said in my hast all men are lyars even Samuel among the rest who assured me of the Kingdome by expresse message from God but surely he also is deceived and hath fed me with vaine hopes Now as these words of David according to our translation of them and the truth of the thing in frequent experiences shew that Godly men are apt to question the truth of the promise when themselves are by seemingly contradicting providences much afflicted so they are apt to question the truth of the threatnings when they see outward providences prospering the wicked Therefore when the threatnings have their actuall yea and Amen that is when they are executed upon the ungodly this also is to the glory of God by us that is God is glorified by all his people who heare of it in the truth of what he hath spoken Againe as God is magnified in the truth of his threatnings when any particular wicked man is punished so when common calamities come upon the wicked the truth of God or God in his truth is magnified two wayes First As such calamities are a fullfilling of many Prophecies secondly As they are the answer or returne of many prayers The vengeance which falls upon the Enemies of the Church of God is drawne out by prayer Luke 18.7 8. And there is nothing wherein God is more honoured then when prayer is answered For as therein he fullfills our wants so his owne word Who hath not said to the seed of Jacob seeke ye mee in vaine Thirdly When the wicked fall the Lord is honoured in the attribute of his power How great is his power who puls downe great power It argues the Almightines