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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the Book of Job being the substance of XXXV lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed for L. Fawne, 1656
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Chapters o… › Chapter 4 › Verses 1-6
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Hence confidence is well called the rest of the soul, therefore such as attain to confidence are said to be in peace, in perfect peace. 1Him wilt thou establish in perfect peace, whose heart doth trust upon thee. And this act of confidence or trust is proper and peculiar ⟨p. 22⟩to God, no creature must share in it. This is worship commanded in the first precept, Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. Whatsoever we confide in unless it be in subordination unto God, we make it our God. And it is one of the highest acts of the soul, not only as we respect the taking in, our own comforts, but also the giving out, glory unto God. This confidence is well coupled with holy fear, the more we fear God so, the more we trust him; such fear is the mother and nurse of confidence: But confidence is directly contrary, yea contradictory to carnal fear; he that trusts God indeed, leaves both soul and body, temporal and eternal estate with him, without ever sending a fearful thought, or a jealous look after either. It follows:
Hence confidence is well called the rest of the soule, therefore such as attaine to confidence are said to be in peace, in perfect peace. 1Him wilt thou establish in perfect peace, whose heart doth trust upon thee. And this act of confidence or trust is proper and peculiar ⟨p. 22⟩to God, no creature must share in it. This is worship commanded in the first precept, Thou shalt have no other Gods before mee. Whatsoever we confide in unlesse it be in subordination unto God, we make it our God. And it is one of the highest acts of the soule, not onely as we respect the taking in, our own comforts, but also the giving out, glory unto God. This confidence is well coupled with holy feare, the more we feare God so, the more we trust him; such feare is the mother and nurse of confidence: But confidence is directly contrary, yea contradictory to carnall feare; he that trusts God indeed, leaves both soule and body, temporall and eternall estate with him, without ever sending a fearefull thought, or a jealous looke after either. It followes: