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

was the former promise Thou shalt be built up and all evill shall depart away from thy Tabernacle Iniquity which properly signifies the evill of sin is often put in Scripture for the evills of trouble and suffering and as all acknowledge this to be a truth so some judge it the truth specially intended in this place I shall therefore briefely note from it That when we truely returne to God from sin then suffering evills depart from us and ours For though the Lord be pleased to dispence variously for triall of his people and often suffers the evill of affliction to hang about their Tabernacles who desire sincerely and endeavour faithfully to put all iniquity farre from their Tabernacles yet this is the promise of God and this hath been often experienced by Godly men That God hath turned trouble out of their doores when they have humbly and zealously laboured to turne sin out of their hearts Eliphaz having incouraged Job by this generall promise he draweth it forth into particulars And that first in reference to outward things Vers 24. Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brookes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 munire Aurum lectissimum quasi ab igne munitum aut quod sit h●mini munimentum Then that is when thou hast acquainted thy selfe with God then when thou hast laid up his law in thy heart then when thou hast returned to the Almighty thy selfe and put away iniquity farre from thy Tabernacle Then thou shalt lay up gold as dust c. The word which we render Gold signifies to fortifie or to defend and it is translated a defence at the 25th verse Solomon saith Eccl. 7.12 not onely That wisdome is a defence but that money is a defence that is it procures defence and Gold is the chiefe of money Though Gold be not a defence formally yet virtually it is Gold defends it selfe against all the forces of fire and it is a principall meanes of defending us against the fire and fury of the Greatest dangers Thou shalt lay up Gold as dust c. But Christ sayth Math. 6.19 Lay not up treasures for your selves on earth And it was a rule given concerning the King of Israel in the Leviticall Law long before Israel had a King Deut. 17.17 He shall not greatly multiply to himselfe silver and gold How then doth Eliphaz say that he who repents shall lay up gold as the dust is that fit worke for him I answer the words are not to be understood as an exhortation to bend his endeavours to the gathering of riches but as a promise from God that he shall by a blessing from above gather store of riches here below Thou shalt lay up gold as the dust By gold here and silver in the next verse we are to understand all manner of riches because gold and silver are the chiefe riches therefore all is contained under them And when he sayth Thou shalt lay up gold as the dust the words receive variety of renderings some thus Thou shalt lay up gold above the dust as if he should say thou shalt have more gold than dust which is a straine of rhetoricke expressing aboundance Others read Thou shalt lay vp gold upon the dust As Psal 24.2 He hath founded it upon the Seas A third renders Thou shalt lay up gold by the dust Like that Psal 1.3 A tree planted by the river side A fourth thus Et pone in pulvere Aurum Coc Noli animum auro apponere nimisque illud diligere sed nihili aestima deijce in terram unde ortum est aestima ut terram lapides petrae Scull Pone ubi deus Natura posuit Coc. by way of counsell And lay gold in the dust Which two latter readings are expounded as a direction given to Job how he should lay up gold he must not lay up gold in his heart and spirit but in the dust or by the dust As if he had said Put that purer dust that better concocted and refined dust in the common dust put the dust to dust put thy gold in its proper place where God and nature put it 'T is but dust and so a fit companion for the dust yea say some 't is as if Eliphaz had sayd Doe not so much as make roome for it in thy house provide not chests for it let it lie where it had its originall It came from the dust there leave it returne it backe to its owne Country to the place of its nativity A Heathen hath this notion concerning gold and silver c. And he labours much to shew that the site position of these things in nature holds forth how we ought to receive and estimate them Nulli nos vitio natura conciliat nihil quidē quod avaritiam nostram irritaret posuit in aperto pedibus aurum argentū sub jecit calcandum ac premendum dedit quicquid est propter quod calcamur premimur Sen ep 94. Even nature by which he meanes the ordinary course set in nature draws us off from coveting Gold and silver there is nothing which may provoke or stirre up covetousnesse which God hath advanced or set up high in the order of nature Gold and silver are the chiefe objects of Covetousnesse now both these as also whatsoever else man is pressed about and as it were trodden underfoote in the dirt for by burdensome or covetous cares God hath thrust or trodden under our feete Gold doth not fall out of the clouds of heaven hut lieth under the clods of the earth there God hath put them to be trampled and trodden under our feete that we might scorne to have our affections trampled upon and trodden underfoote by them or such things as they So then All that this interpretation or translation aymes at in saying Gold must be put in the dust is onely to shew us that our estimations should be taken off from it or that we should place it as low in our thoughts as God hath placed it in the order of nature And this is a spirituall sense suiting that of our Saviour Lay not up for your selves treasures on earth make not great preparations to keepe your earthly treasures especially let them not be kept in your heart or lie there where Christ onely and the treasures of heaven ought to be layd up Put your gold in the dust or let it be esteemed as dust seing at best it is but wel concocted dust So Gold and silver are called Amos 2.7 That pa●t after the dust of the earth upon the head of the poore So the Prophet describes their extreame covetousnes who will be rich though it be by empoverishing those who are poorest Yet I conceive in this place Eliphaz hath another ayme And that where be saith Thou shalt lay up Gold as the dust his meaning onely is thou shalt lay up plenty of Gold or ●●ou shalt gather much riches for the