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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35535	An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1661 (1661)	Wing C774; ESTC R36275	783,217	917

is doe not exact the utmost of others which the Law in the rigour of it will allow he that will not remit any thing of his right is not only over-righteous but may soon doe wrong or Thirdly when he saith be not over-righteous as he would not have men stand strictly upon their right with others so he would not have them speak much of their own righteousnesse but rather sometimes take blame to themselves then which was Jobs case proclaime themselves altogether blamelesse As we are not to betray our innocency so not give a shadow of any boasting in it We seldome lose by saying little of our selves And in most cases we should rather trust God who hath promised he will doe it Psal 37.6 to bring forth our righteousnesse as the light then be over-industrious in bringing it to light or in bringing it out of that darknesse with which it lyeth obscured either by or among men As we ought never to lye against our right so it may not be convenient at some times to speake all the truth of it which we can This at least was Jobs fault and it will be any mans who doth like Job yea though he should be which few have been or are like to be under as great sufferings as Job The greatnesse whereof he aggravated to the hight in the next words with which Elihu chargeth him My wound is incurable without transgression An incurable wound is the worst of wounds and though to be wounded without transgression is best for him that receives it yet it is worst for him that gives it My wound is incurable The Hebrew is my arrow the arrow is a wounding weapon and in this Text 't is put for the wound it self Job complained Chap. 6.4 The arrows of the Allmighty drink up my spirits There are arrows of two sorts and answerably there are wounds of two sorts There are first externall secondly internall arrows God shooteth his arrows both into the flesh and spirit the former make a wounded body the latter a wounded soule Job may intend both for he received wounds in both his flesh was wounded and all that belong'd to flesh his estate his credit and good name were wounded his soule and spirit were wounded also the arrowes of God were shot thick at him and hit him from head to foot The Archers as dying Jacob said of Joseph Gen. 49.23 Gravissima est sagitta mea absque transgressione Bez 24. sorely grieved him they all shot at him and one of them Satan hated him but though his bow as to the maine abode in strength and the arms of his hands were made strong by tht hands of the mighty God of Jacob yet he cryed out as if there had been no helpe no healing no hope for him My wound Is incurable Hanc sagittam Elihu vocat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. gravem doloratam pessimè habentem hinc Enosh homo ab infirmitate et fragilitate dictus The word which we render incurable signifies not only what is very dolorous or grievous but mischievous mortall and deadly And from this word man is called Enosh in the Hebrew to shew how infirme and fraile he is sin having given him a wound which is incurable by any thing but the blood of Jesus Christ Job felt his wounds and he spake of them as a man swallowed up with desperation and expected no cure of his present sad condition My wound is incurable and he concluded with that which is yet harder My wound is incurable Without transgression Mr. Broughton translates My stroak is sore without trespasse Job in saying his wound was incurable shewed a defect in his faith but in saying it was incurable without transgression he seemeth to shew his defect in truth For surely had there not been transgression in him there had never been a wound upon him God had never so much as broken our skin but for sin Man had never felt so much as the scratch of a pins poynt by the hand of God if he had not once prevaricated and Apostatiz'd from God We ow all our sorrows to our sins all our woundings to our transgressings How then doth Job say My wound is incurable without transgression The word here used is not usually put to signifie sin in generall though some take it so but some speciall kind of sin 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 denotat grave scelus vel Apostasi●m Scult that of more then an ordinary degree a sin with a malignity a provoking sin As if the meaning of Elihu were that he heard Job say Though his sin were not great though it were not any rebellion against light nor dangerous Apostacy though his were a very curable sin yet his wound was altogether incurable his wound was great though his sin was little Now because Justice doth usually apportion the punishment inflicted both to the nature and measure of the sin committed therefore Elihu takes it and he had too much occasion to doe so as a great reflection upon the justice of God when he heard Job thus bemoaning himselfe My wound is incurable without transgression To receive the least wound without transgression is a great wound to justice how greatly then doth he wound the Justice of God who saith he hath received a great yea an incurable wound without transgression But where spake Job these words when said he My wound is incurable without transgression we must bring in that Job hath said to every one of these charges I answer Job spake of the arrows of God Chap 6.4 and that they were incurable he saith in other words Chap 16.13 His arrowes compasse me round about he cleaveth my reines asunder he powreth out my gall upon the ground When a mans reines are cleft in sunder with an arrow and his gall powred on the ground his wound is incurable But where did he say My wound is incurable without transgression Elihu might collect that from Chap 9.17 He breaketh me with a tempest and multiplyeth my wounds without cause and from Chap 16.16 17. My face is foule with weeping c. not for any injustice in my hands While Mary washed the feete of Christ with her teares Luke 7.38 she might be sayd to foule her owne face with her teares Teares which in a qualified sence or as a token of true repentance wash and cleanse the soule doe yet blubber and disfigure the face My face saith Job is soule with weeping though my hands are not foule with sinning or any evill doing This was in effect to say what Elihu here censureth him for saying My wound is incurable without transgression Hence note First God hath his arrows he can wound us when and where he pleaseth He shooteth and misseth not his marke He hath a quiver full of deadly arrows take heed how ye provoke him Jbb had a whole quiver of arrows emptied upon him for triall for the exercise of his patience Woe to those upon whom God emptieth his quivers

Thirdly Such strivings with God are the exercisings of our lusts and corruptions Then is the time for anger and discontent or any evill affection to come forth and act their part Fourthly Striving with God is an argument that sin hath much strength in us and that corruption hath got a mighty hand over us Fifthly Striving with God layeth us open to all the temptations of Satan to all the fiery darts of the Devill Our shield is gone when once we strive with God who is our shield in all Satans strivings and assaults against us And then we stand naked before that armed enemy Sixthly Striving with God doth at once unfit us for every good duty and putteth us further off from every desired mercy Seventhly and lastly Striving against God makes man most like the Devill who is the most unquiet and discontented creature in the world and is alwayes both striving with God and vexing at his owne condition The devill 's sin at first was striving with God and 't is the summe of all his actings and workings against man ever since None resemble the devill more lively then male-contents and who are they but such as strive and struggle against the afflictive providences of God Now for the preserving and keeping of our hearts from this great this complicated sin a sin containing many sins in it and disposing us to all sin Lay these things to heart First let us consider our own nothingness in comparison of God God is all and what are we we are nothing and shall we strive with God shall folly strive against wisdome and weaknesse against strength When the Prophet would comfort the people of God against the strivings of the nations with them he doth it upon this consideration Isa 40 17. All nations before him are as nothing and they are counted to him lesse then nothing and vanity To whom will ye compare him And surely we may by the same argument much more deterre all men from striving with God Shall single persons strive against him to whom not only they but whole nations are nothing yea and lesse then nothing Secondly Doe we find our selves under a crosse or in a hard condition remember we have deserved no better As we are nothing so we have deserved nothing Jacob to keepe his spirit quiet in a time of great distresse confessed Gen 32.10 Lord I am unworthy of the least of thy mercies As if he had sayd I have no reason to complaine or be angry to fret or vex at this dispensation yea though thou shouldst let the cloud of my brothers wrath breake upon me and swallow me up for what am I If we consider we have deserved no good we shall never strive with God about any evill that befalls us especially if we consider Thirdly That we are ill-deserving or such as deserve the greatest evills None of us suffer but what our owne sin hath procured yea sin might have procured us soarer sufferings Every sin hath a crosse in the belly of it And shall we strive with God because of our crosses when our sins have made them Fourthly Why should we strive with God about these things are they worth the striving with God about surely they are not wotth the striving with men about much lesse with God If we were in the best outward estate that ever any man enjoyed in this world yet we were not then got a step beyond vanity Psal 39.5 Every man in his best estate is altogether vanity Suppose God should give you a blank and bid you sit downe and write what you would have as to your outward state and then bestow it upon you yet in this best estate you and your all are altogether vanity And will ye strive with God for taking a vaine thing from you Will you be so much dissatisfied for the taking away or want of that which could not satisfie you when you had it nor can when you have it againe If a man had all these comforts which he strives for they could not make him happy why then should he strive because they are removed from him But as they are vanity because unable to satisfie when we have them so they are vanity because of our uncertainty to hold them Yea suppose we hold them as long as we can have them it is but a while And shall we strive with God about loosing that which at longest we cannot keepe long To be sure these things are not necessary for us Christ sayd to Martha There is one thing necessary Luke 10.42 But a worldly comfort of any kind is not the nece●●●●y thing which Christ there intends And shall we strive with God about unnecessaries Fifthly Know afflictions are the portion of the people of God in this life They are the corrections of a father and there is no son but hath his correction or may have it And shall we strive with God for sending us our portion our son-like child-like portion Sixthly I would say this to believers Why will ye strive with God about any of your afflictions they are for your good and benefit And will ye strive with God because he is doing you good let your afflictions be never so sad never so sore and to sence never so bad yet God is doing you good by them be not angry with your owne good Lastly Why doe we strive with God under our afflictions He loveth us as much under affliction as in a prosperous condition God is tender to his in their troubles and shall they be harsh to him when he is so tender towards them A parent that hath but nature will tender his child most when sick and weak and will not God Let us take heed we be not found striving with or having hard thoughts of God while the bowels of his most tender compassions are moving towards us To shut up this whole poynt As Christ when he saw his Disciples in danger to be carried away with the feare of man saith to them Luke 12.4 5. Be not afraid of them that can kill the body and after that have no more that they can doe But I will forewarne you whom you shall feare feare him which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell yea I say unto you feare him Now as because men are apt to feare yea mostly to feare that which they should not Christ sheweth them whom to feare So as hath been shewed because men are very apt to strive but they commonly strive with those and about those things which they should not Therefore I will tell you with whom and with what ye should strive If ye will needs be striving pray First Strive with the sin in your owne bosomes strive with your owne lusts and corruptions One of the great Gospel duties which we are called to is to mortifie our earthly members To strive with all inordinate affections with pride with envie with love of the world and with uncharitablenesse to the death is our duty if ye will