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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35439	An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1647 (1647)	Wing C761; ESTC R16048	581,645	610

up alwaies at the same height in the same plight and degree There is a faith which believes that God doth answer before he answers and there is a faith that cannot believe God will answer when he hath answered Faith in strength prevents the answer of God As God in answering sometimes prevents our askings Isa 65.24 Before they call I will answer and while they are yet speaking I will hear So faith saith Before the Lord giveth I know I have it before the Lord doth this thing I see it is done Faith in it's strength realizes the mercies of God before they have a being and is an evidence to us of what we see not When mercies are but in their principles in their conception and birth or at most when they are but in their cradle and swadling-clouts faith speaks as gloriously of them as if they were fully acted and grown up before the eye Strong faith in God like God himself quickens the dead and calleth those things which be not as though they were Weake faith deadens the quick and calleth those things which are as if they were not The Israelites were no sooner over the red sea but they believed themselves in the land of Canaan Exod. 15.13 14 15. and in their Song tell the story of the submission and fears of the uncircumcised Nations round about which yet their after unbelief kept off fourty years There is a further understanding of the words which I shall clear in connexion with that which followeth I would not believe that he had hearkned to my voice For he breaketh me with a tempest as if the reason why he doubted his voice was not heard Etiamsi De●●o peccantem exaudierit minime credo cum malorum ni●bo me obiuat lay in this because of those continuall breakings which were upon him I would not believe that he had hearkened to my voice for he breaketh me with a tempest and multiplieth my wounds without a cause As if Job had said the dealings of God are such towards me that I know not how to make it out that I am heard For though the Lord in some things carries it so graciously toward me that I have great assurance I am heard yet many things appear reporting that I am not heard Afflictions continued are no evidence that praier is not heard yet usually it is very inevident to an afflicted person that his praier is heard I shall now examine the 16 and 17. verse as holding a reason why Jobs faith was thus weakned Verse 17. For he breaketh me with a tempest and multiplieth my wounds without cause Jobs sorrows put him to his rhetorick still 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Turbo He breaketh me with a tempest An expression raising his afflictions to the height yet not beyond the reality of them He breaketh me with a tempest The word we translate break signifies an utter contusion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the totall ruining of a thing or person Contudit contrivit obminuit the dashing of either to pieces The word is used reciprocally of Christ and the devil in that great and first promise of Christ The seed of the woman Gen. 13.16 It shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel Christ having infinite power utterly destroied the serpents power he spoil'd and ruin'd him for ever the Apostle phrases it so Coloss 2.15 He spoiled principalities and powers he took away the prey or booty of souls which they had got and led them disarm'd like prisoners of warre And the devil did what he could to ruine and spoil Christ to break Christ to pieces Thus Christ and Satan strove and contended one with another And the word Shuph hath an elegant neernesse in sound to our English We call that noise which is made by the ruder motion of the feet shufling and when men contend much we hear the shufling of their feet Job was striving and shufling with God in praier and God was striving and shufling with Job in storms and tempests He breaketh me with a tempest The word signifies not only storms and tempests but likewise Chaldaeus legit usque ad filum lineu● vel adfila pi●orum subtiliter disputat mecum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Filum significat A little hair or twined threed So the Chaldee Paraphrast translates it here He disputes or contends with me to a hair or to a threed making the sense out thus I will not believe that God hath answered me why He standeth with me upon the smallest matters he disputes with me to a hair and debates every thing to a threed As Abraham said to the King of Sodome Gen. 14.23 I will not take any thing that is thine from a threed even to a shoe-latchet that is I will not make the smallest gain by thee So to dispute to a hair or to a threed notes contending upon or about the smallest differences But generally the word is render'd a Tempest and thus God is often described contending with man Nah. 1.3 His way is in the whirlwinde and in the storm and the clouds are the dust of his feet that is He sends storms and whirlwindes by these he afflicts the children of men and as an army of horsmen raises clouds of dust from the earth with their feet so the Lord raises the dust of clouds with his Behold a whirlwinde or a tempest of the Lord is gone forth in fury even a grievous whirlwinde it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked Jer. 23.19 To break with a tempest or with a whirlwinde implies two things 1. A sudden and an unexpected affliction Tempests are never welcome and but seldom looked for When the sea is so calm and smooth that you may throw a die upon it a storm ariseth in a moment and the vessell in danger of a wreck 2. It noteth the fiercenesse and violence of an affliction Tempests are the most violent motions they come with power A tempest is irresistible Who can stand before it Who can contend with storms and windes When the Lord made totall conquests of his enemies he contended in the letter by storms and tempests As in the 10th of Joshua and in the first of Samuel Chap. 7.10 When the Philistines drew neer to battell against Israel the Lord thundered with a great thunder that day upon the Philistines and discomfited them The story is famous of a legion of Christian souldiers called the thundering legion because by praier they obtained a refreshing rain for the army in which they were commanded and a terrible storm of thunder and lightning c. upon the enemy The word is used figuratively in warre when besiegers comming to a Town or Fort are resolved to carry it presently what ever it cost them they are said to storm the place or to get it by storm The Prophet alludes to this Isa 25.4 When the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall that is when their rage shall