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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

sorrowes 2. To communicate unto him their comforts First To mourne with him And secondly To comfort him The former of these two ends viz. their mourning with him we have largely set downe in the two latter verses they put that end into act presently as soone as they came they fell a mourning with him And we may observe 5. distinct acts of Jobs friends solemnly condoling or mourning with him The first act is this They wept And to shew that it was no ordinary weeping the Text saith They lift up their voice and wept The second act of their mourning was their renting of their Mantles And they rent every one his Mantle The third act was the sprinckling of dust upon their heads and the sprinckling of dust toward Heaven which was another aggravating circumstance of their sorrow The fourth act was their sitting downe with him upon the ground seven dayes and seven nights The fifth act of their mourning with him was their silence And none spake a word unto him The Cause or the reason of this solemnity in their mourning the reason of these 5. Acts but especially of the last of their silence is given us in the latter words of the verse For they saw that his griefe was very great therefore it must have great sorrow and great silence to waite the fittest season for the administring of counsell and consolation Thus for the parts and resolution of the words contained in these 3. verses I shall come to the opening of the particulars And when Jobs three friends The word which we translate friends springs from a root which signifieth to feed a mans selfe or others or to eate together as Sheepe eate together and so from the same word a Pastor or a feeder of Sheepe is derived Psal 21.1 The Lord is my Shepheard and feeder And by a Metaphor it is translated for a friend because friends doe usually feed together eate and converse together So David describes a friend Psal 49.9 My familiar friend that did eate of my bread Jobs visitants are thus exprest his friends or familiars The word sometimes notes only a friend at large or any neighbour So in the Law Exod. 20 16. Thou shalt not beare false witnesse against thy neighbour or it is the same word against thy friend there it is taken in a large sense for a neighbour that is for any besides thy selfe to whom offices of love are due as Christ expounds it Luk. 10.30 But usually it is put strictly for a speciall friend as in Deut. 13.6 when he speakes of inticers to Idolatry If thy friend saith he who is as thine owne soule there is the same word and he shewes by a circumlocution whom he meanes by such a friend namely such a one who is as thine own soule one that lieth in thy bosome and is as neere and deare to thee as thy selfe I suppose here in this place Jobs three friends were not friends at large but intimate and speciall friends or as we use to say bosome friends And therefore when it is said Jobs three friends we are not to understand it as if Job had but three as if these were all the friends Iob had but amongst all his friends these carried away the name these were the chiefe and choice Jobs three friends As it is said concerning Davids Worthies 2 Sam. 23 David had many Worthies but there was a first three a chiefe three among them all So here Iob doubtlesse had many friends a large catalogue of friends but in these you have the toppe of his friends the chiefe hree the first three These three speciall friends came to visit Iob to mourne with him and to comfort him The occasion of this visit presents it selfe next When these three friends heard of all this evill that was come upon Job When they heard of it The troubles of Iob were noysed all the Country over yea into strange Countries Two things are swiftly carried about upon the wings of fame and poasted about by reports First The sinnes Secondly The afflictions of godly men If they fall into any sin it will be heard of all a Country it may be all a Kingdome over It shall be told in Gath and publish'd in the streets of Askelon Againe if they fall into any great affliction every one descants upon it and many will passe deepe censures It becomes matter of wonder that men eminent in godlinesse great professors such as have held forth the name and upheld the truth of Christ that they I say should fall into great afflictions is reported discours'd admir'd all a Country over There is nothing that is more talked of then the trouble that befalleth godly men When the three friends of Job heard of all this evill that was come upon him When this report about Iob came to them they came to Iob. They came saith the Text every one from his owne place The word Place is often used in Scripture to signifie a Country a City or a Region Now here it is conceived that the place from whence they came was not only the place where they dwelt but the place where they governed It is frequently asserted by the Iewish Doctors with whom the Septuagint agree and most of the Jesuits are in it to that these three friends of Iob were Kings either Reges or Reguli such as had the governement of those Countries where they lived Beza rejects this as a Fable and telleth us that this opinion hath no footing or foundation in Scripture but is grounded only upon that usuall boldnesse of the Iewish Doctors But whether they were Kings or subjects whether they came from their private dwellings or from the places of their dominion needs not trouble us This is cleare that they were great men eminent persons in their Country and the disputes which follow testifie that they were men of very great wisedome and understanding according to all the learning of those times These three friends of Job are here set forth by name by a double name By the name first of their persons Secondly by the name of their Country or of their Family For that 's a question whether the additionall name be derived from the Country where they dwelt or from the Family out of which they were extracted Eliphaz the Temanite he is the first We reade Gen. 36.11 that Esau begat Eliphaz that Eliphaz was the eldest sonne of Esau and Eliphaz begat Teman This Teman descending from Esau is supposed to be the Father or the Ancestor of this Eliphaz from whom he is called Eliphaz the Temanite and so Temanite is a note of the Family from whence Eliphaz descended It is usuall likewise in Scripture to give such additionall names from the Countries or places and so Eliphaz the Temanite may be from Teman of which we reade often in Scripture Teman signifies the South It was a Southerne Country Further Teman was a place wherein it is observed that the Schooles

and mysteriousnesse of the matter While a man speakes in a strange language wee heare a sound but know not the words and while a man speakes in our owne language though we know the words yet we may not understand the meaning and then hee that speakes is to us in that reference so the Apostle calls him a Barbarian While the leaves of the booke are opened and read to such or by such the sense is shut up and sealed When the Apostle Philip heard the Ethiopian Eunuch reade the Prophet Isaiah as he traveld in his Chariot hee said to him understandest thou what thou readest The Eunuch answered How should I unlesse some man would guide mee He understood the language but the meaning was under a vaile The very same may we say to many who reade the Scriptures understand you what you reade And they may answer as the Eunuch did How can we except we had some man to guide us Yea and alas for all the guiding of man they may answer How can we except we have the Spirit of God to guide us He hath his Pulpit in heaven who teacheth hearts the heart of Scripture Paul we know was a learned Pharisee and much verst in the Law and yet he saith of himselfe before his conversion that hee was without the Law but when Christ came to him then the Commandment came to him I was once alive without the Law but when the Commandment came that is when Christ came and his Spirit came in or after my conversion and expounded the Commandment to my heart then the Commandment came sc to my heart in the power of it and I understood to purpose what the Law was So that the teachings of the Spirit the teachings of God himselfe are chiefly to be looked after and prayed for that we may know the mind of the Spirit the will of God in Scripture But he hath set up this ordinance the ordinance of interpretation to doe it by both that the Scripture might be translated out of the Originall into the common language of every Nation which the Apostle calls interpreting in that place before cited and also that the originall sense of the Scripture might be translated into the minde and understanding of every man which is the worke we aime at and now have in hand Before I begin that give me leave to beseech you in the Name of Christ to take care for the carrying on of this worke a degree further I mean to translate the sense of Scripture into your lives and to expound the word of God by your workes Interpret it by your feet and teach it by your fingers as Solomon speakes to another sense that is let your working and your walkings be Scripture explications It is indeed a very great honour unto this Citie that you take care for a Commentarie on the Scripture in writing but if you will be carefull and diligent to make a Commentarie upon the Scripture by living or to make your lives the Commentarie of Scripture this will make your Citie glorious indeed It is the Apostles testimonie of his Corinthians Yee saith he are our Epistle for as much as yee are manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ ministred by us written not with inke but with the Spirit of the living God not in tables of stone but in fleshie tables of the heart Give us we beseech you the same occasion of glorying on your behalfe that we may say You are our Expositions for as much as you are manifestly declared in your practise to be the exposition of the mind of Christ ministred unto you by us A walking a breathing Commentarie goeth infinitely beyond the written or spoken Commentarie And as the Apostle makes his conclusion before noted I had rather speake five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue So I say I had rather know five words of Scripture by my own practise and experience than ten thousand words of Scripture yea than the whole Scripture by the bare Exposition of another And therefore let the word of Christ by these verball Explications dwell richly in your understandings in all wisedome And by a practicall application let it be held forth plentifully in your lives in all holinesse Adde Commentarie to Commentarie and Exposition to Exposition adde the Comment of works to this Comment of words and an Exposition by your lives to this Exposition by our labours Surely if you do not these Exercises will be costly indeed and will come to a deep account against you before the Lord. If you are lifted up to heaven by the opening of the Scripture which is either a carrying of you up to heaven or a bringing of heaven downe to you and then walke groveling upon the earth how sore will the judgement be But it is to me an argument and an evidence from heaven that God hath put it into your hearts to be more glorious in the practise of holinesse because he hath put it into your hearts to desire more the knowledge of holinesse To draw in my speech nearer to the businesse Having a booke full of very various matter before me give mee leave to premise some things in the generall and some thing more particulars by way of Preface concerning the booke before wee come to the handling of the text First for the generall That which God speakes concerning the whole worke of Creation We may speake concerning the whole booke of Scripture It is very good Solomon observes that wheresoever the wisdom of God spake it spake of excellent things And David to quicken our endeavours and excite our diligence to the study of the word preferreth it in worth above thousands of gold and silver and in sweetnesse above the honey and the honey combe And when he ceaseth to compare hee beginneth to admire Wonderfull are thy Testimonies And well may that bee called Wonderfull which proceedeth from the God of Wonders All Scripture is given by divine inspiration or by inspiration from God and I need not stay to shew you the excellencie of any part when I have but pointed at such an originall of the whole As therefore the whole Scripture whether wee respect the majestie of the Author the height or puritie of the matter the depth or perspicuitie of the stile the dignitie or variety of occurrences whether we consider the Art of compiling or the strength of arguing disdaines the very mention of comparison with any other humane Author whatsoever so are comparisons in it selfe as Booke with Booke Chapter with Chapter dangerous There is not in this great volume of holy counsell any one Book or Chapter Verse or Section of greater power or authoritie than other Moses and Samuel the writings of Amos the Shepherd and of Isaiah a Descendant of the blood Royall the writings of the Prophets and Evangelists the Epistles of Paul and this historie of Iob must be received to use the words