Whether the men are godly, or wicked, threatened
1 With certaine Punishment. Who so moc∣keth the poore, reproacheth his maker: and hee
A view of the threats and punishments recorded in the Scriptures, alphabetically composed with some briefe observations upon severall texts / by Zachary Bogan ...
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- A view of the threats and punishments recorded in the Scriptures, alphabetically composed with some briefe observations upon severall texts / by Zachary Bogan ...
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- Bogan, Zachary, 1625-1659.
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- 1653.
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"A view of the threats and punishments recorded in the Scriptures, alphabetically composed with some briefe observations upon severall texts / by Zachary Bogan ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28553.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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that is glad at calamities, shall not be unpuni∣shed Prov: 17. 5. Shall not be unpunished.] Per∣haps it may be meant, shall be punisht severe∣ly. For it is an usuall Hebraisme in the Scri∣pture, to speake by a 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 or 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, of things that are very bad, whether punish∣ments or sinnes: meaning the more, by expres∣sing the lesse. At Calamities] simply, with∣out expressing a person. as if calamities them∣selves, upon no person, and in no case, might be the direct object of our joy.
2 If they are our enemies, God's turning away his wrath from them (and perhaps to us) Rejoyce not when thine enemie falleth: and let not thine heart be glad, when he stumbleth: lest the Lord see it, and it displease him, & he turn away his wrath from him, Prov. 24. 17, 18. Job puts it among those sinnes, which if hee were guilty of, he wisht, or would be con∣tented, that any misery might fall upon him. If I rejoyced at the destruction (or misery) of him that hated me, or lift up my selfe, when evil found him, Job 31. 29. as if he had added, I would have been contented, God should have done to me what he would. Lift up my selfe] The Sept. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, if my heart, (onely) did say, 'tis good enough for him, (a speech too often used.) At the destruction] in the Hebrew. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 IN the destruction. as if he would not rejoice, so much as at such a time
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when his enemie was destroyed. Which is more then Solomon's at, or for* 1.1, in the place above quoted. (And indeed they are no or∣dinary acts of piety, which Job commends himselfe for in that Chapter.) But not more then David practised, to the purpose, not on∣ly not rejoycing, but mourning at such times WHEN they were sicke, my clothing was sack∣cloth, Psal: 35. 13.
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At cala∣mities, Hebr. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉