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A35389	An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Iob delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus neare the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1643 (1643)	Wing C754; ESTC R33345	463,798	518

that prayer For sitting we have 2 Sam. 2.18 When Nathan brought that message unto David concerning the building of the house of God that it should be deferred till his sonnes time the Text saith That David went in and sate before the Lord and said who am I O Lord And in the end he saith Therefore have I found in my heart to pray this prayer unto thee We also find walking in prayer Gen. 24.63 Isaac went out into the field to pray He walked and pray'd we translate it to meditate but in the margin of your bookes you find it to pray as being nearer the Hebrew So that walking and sitting and standing are likewise praying gestures or postures of holy worship But chiefly that posture of bowing downe the body or bending the knee is the worship posture so it followes in the Text. He fell upon the ground and worshipped And worshipped To vvorship is to give to any one the honour due unto him So the rendering unto God that love that feare that service that honour vvhich is due unto him is the worshipping of God that 's the Scripture definition Psal 29.2 Give unto the Lord the honour due unto his name then followes by vvay of exposition Worship the Lord in the beauty of holinesse that is in his holy Temple in his beautifull Sanctuary or in the comely honour of his Sanctuary So that worship is the tendering of honour to the Lord in a vvay honourable to him namely according to his own vvill and Lawes of vvorship vvhich is intimated by comming to worship him in his beautifull Sanctuary where all things about the service of God vvere exactly prescribed by God And then there was beauty or comely honour in the Sanctuary vvhen all things vvere ordered there by the rule of his prescription varying and departing from vvhich vvould have filled that holy place vvith darknesse and deformity notwithstanding all the outward lustre and beauty had bin preserved The worship of God is two-fold there is internall worship and there is externall worship Internall worship is to love God to feare God and to trust upon him these are acts of inward worship these are the summe of our duty and Gods honour contained in the first Commandement And so you may understand vvorship in the Text. Iob fell downe and worshipped that is presently upon those reports hee put forth an act of love and holy feare acts of dependance and holy trust upon God in his Spirit saying to this effect within himselfe Lord though all this be come upon me yet I will not depart from thee or deale falsly in thy Covenant I know thou art still the same Jehovah true holy gracious faithfull All-sufficient and therefore behold me prostrate before thee and resolving still to love thee still to feare thee still to trust thee thou art my God still and my portion for ever Though I had nothing left in the world that I could call mine yet thou Lord alone art enough yet thou alone art All. Such doubtlesse vvas the language of Iobs heart and these were mighty actings of inward worship Then likewise there is externall worship which is the summe of the second Commandement and it is nothing else but the serving of the Lord according to his owne Ordinances and institution in those severall wayes wherein God will be honoured and served this is outward vvorship and as we apply our selves unto them so we are reckon'd to worship God Job worshipped God outwardly by falling to the ground by powring out supplications and by speaking good words of God as we reade afterward words tending to his owne abasement and the honour of God clearely and fully acquitting and justifying the Lord in all those works of his providence and dispensations towards him This is worship both internall and externall Internall worship is the chiefe but God requireth both and there is a necessity of joyning both together that God may have honour in the world Internall worship is compleat in it selfe and pleasing unto God without the externall The externall may be compleat in it selfe but is never pleasing to God without the internall Internall worship pleases God most but externall honours God most for by this God is knowne and his glory held forth in the world Externall worship is Gods name Hence the Temple was called the place where God put his Name sc his worship by which God is knowne as a man by his name They that worship God must worship him in Sprit and in Truth In Spirit that is with inward love and feare reverence and sincerity In Truth that is according to the true rule prescribed in his word Spirit respects the inward power Truth the outward forme The former strikes at hypocrisie the latter strikes at Idolatry The one opposes the inventions of our heads the other the loosenesse of our hearts in worship Observe further that it is only said Job fell downe and worshipped nothing is said of the object to whom he did direct his worship or whom he did worship The object is not exprest but understood or presupposed And indeed worship is a thing so proper and peculiar to God that when we name worship we must needs understand God For nothing but God or that which we make a god is or can be worshipped Either he is God whom we worship or as much as in us lies we make him one What creature so ever shares in this honour this honour ipso facto sets it up above and makes it more then a creature The very Heathens thought every thing below a God below worship therefore there needed not an expression of the object when the Text saith Job worshipped that implyes his worship was directed unto God yet there is a kind of worship which is due to creatures There is a civill worship mentioned in Scripture as well as divine worship Civill worship may be given to men And there is a two-fold civill worship spoken of in Scripture There is a civill worship of duty and there is a civill worship of courtesie That of duty is from inferiours to their superiours from children to their Parents from servants to their Masters from Subjects to Kings and Magistrates These gods must have civill worship As Gen. 48.11 vvhen Joseph came into the presence of Jacob his father he bowed downe to the ground this vvas a civill vvorship and a vvorship of duty from an inferiour to a superiour And it is said of the brethren of Judah Gen. 49.8 when Jacob on his death-bed blessed the 12. Tribes Thy brethren shall worship thee or bow downe to thee It is the same vvord used here in this Text. Judahs honour vvas to vvield the Scepter the government was laid upon his shoulders now he being the chiefe Magistrate all the rest of the Tribes all his brethren must vvorship him or give civill honour unto him Secondly There is likewise a worship of courtesie vvhich is from equals when one equall vvill bow to another or vvhen a

the house of the Lord the people shewing their willingnesse and readinesse exprest it thus Let us rise up and build that is let us build as we say out of hand speedily Secondly To arise implyes the courage constancy and strength of those who undertake or goe about a businesse they arise and doe it that is they doe it with spirit So here it may import as much concerning Job in his sufferings He arose and rent his mantle that is though he heard all these sad relations yet his spirit was not overwhelmed he was not drowned in those sorrowes he did not sinke downe under them but he arose and rent his mantle c. as if he had raised himselfe up to wrestle with the temptation and the tempter to wrestle with Satan himselfe In this sense the Lord is said to arise Isa 33.8 9. where there is that sad description of the Land The Earth mourneth and languisheth Lebanon is ashamed c. Now will I rise saith the Lord now will I be exalted that is now will I come and shew my selfe with a mighty power for the deliverance of my people I will be exalted and they shall rejoyce That prayer of the old Church Arise O Lord and let thine enemies be scattered hath the same intendment desiring the Lord to goe forth armed with strength for the helpe of his people and the subduing of their enemies Thus Job arose bound with a four-fold cord of affliction he raised himselfe up like Sampson though in humility yet with strength and courage And so it is opposed to the sinking of the spirit under troubles as you know the spirit of Eli did 1 Sam. 4.18 There was sad tydings brought to Eli concerning the death of his sonnes and the taking of the Arke the Text saith As soone as he heard these things he fell downe backward he had no spirit no strength left in him he did not arise and rend his garment but he sunke downe and brake his necke When Nabal heard of the danger that his churlish and inhospitable answer had almost drawne upon him 1 Sam. 25.37 His heart dyed within him and he became as a stone When all that Job had was dead and gone his heart lived yea he was erecto animo of a raised spirit not only when he arose but when he fell upon the ground for then he worshipped and worship is the lifting up of the soule to God In the worship of God while the body is upon the knee the mind is or ought to be upon the wing And rent his mantle That is the second act Renting or garments is very often spoken of in Scripture and wee finde it especially in these two cases In case of extreame sorrow and in case of extreame indignation In case of extreame sorrow and that of two kinds either in the sorrows of afflictions or in the sorrowes repentance in both these we find renting of the garments For the sorrowes of outward affliction so we reade frequently of renting garments When Jacob heard of the death of Joseph when his sonnes brought him home the bloudy Coat saying but falsely that surely their brother was torne with wilde beasts he presently rent his garment And when the relation of the death of Saul was brought to Davids eare to expresse his sorrow He tooke hold on his cloathes and rent them and likewise all the men that were with him and so againe afterward at the funerall of Abner David rent his cloathes and gave order to all the people that were with him to do the like In great funeral or fatall mournings it was usuall among the Hebrews to rent their garments This also was a frequent custome among the Heathen as the Poet describes a mourner in his mixt lamentations for private and publike losses he went with his garments torne being astonished at the death of his wife and the ruine of the City Many such instances there are amongst their ancient Historians Secondly It was used in token of Repentance when sorrowes for sinne brake forth and multiplied Josh 7.6 When Joshua humbled himselfe upon the defeat flight and slaughter of the Israelites before Ai it is said he rent his cloathes and fell to the Earth This renting was of their garments in respect of the outward affliction but withall in token of repentance for Joshua and the people humbled themselves with fasting So when the booke of the Law was read to Josiah and he saw how farre they had departed from the rule and word of God it is said He rent his clothes and he was afraid he humbled himself and his heart was tender before God But it may be objected that in the 2. Joel 13. when we are exhorted to rent the heart we are stop'd from renting the garment Rent your hearts and not your garments in the case of Repentance For answer to that I say the Not there is not an absolute prohibition of renting the garment it is not so much a negation as a direction Rent your hearts and not your garments that is Rent your hearts rather then your garments or Rent your hearts more then your garments or be sure that you rent your hearts whatsoever ver you doe with your garments Negations doe not alwayes quite deny a thing in the 2 Cor. 3.6 take an instance for it where the Apostle treating of the preheminence of the Gospell in the new dispensation saith Who hath made us able Ministers not of the letter but of the Spirit Not there doth not deny as if the Ministers of Christ did not speake and publish the letter of the word for the letter of the word is the vessell wherin the Spirit is contained and unlesse we speake the letter to the eare the Spirit cannot in an ordinary way come into the heart therefore understand the Apostles meaning thus he hath made us able Ministers not of the letter but of the Spirit that is he hath made us Ministers rather of the spirit then of the letter or more of the spirit then of the letter because of the promise of the plentifull effusion of the Spirit after the ascension of Christ A further instance we have in that speech of God I will have mercy and not sacrifice That is rather mercy then sacrifice Sacrifice is not rejected but mercy is preferr'd So Rent your hearts and not your garments that is rather rent your hearts then your garments For otherwise you find that not only it was lawfull as in the former places in times of repentance and sorrow to rend the garments but they are taxed because they did not repent and rend their garments The not renting the garment is charged as a conviction of an un-rent heart When the roull of curses that Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah was read before Jehojakim and his Courtiers the King cut the roll with a pen-knife and cast it into the fire their impenitence is thus described yet they were not afraid nor rent