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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...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 ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Henry Overton, 1647
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Jobs thoughts had travelled through all the creatures, and found not one of them could stand before God;1 therefore he resolves to fall down before him. I will make supplication. Prayer overcometh when nothing else can. Christ conquered by dying, and we conquer by submitting. And yet, it is not supplication, as an act of ours; but supplication, as it is an ordinance of Gods that prevails with him: he looks upon prayer, as having the stamp of his own institution; otherwise our greatest humblings could prevail no more then our proudest contendings. The Word preached prevails upon the heart, not as it is the act of a man, who dispenseth it (there is no strength in that) but as it is an ordinance of God, who hath appointed it: So humble supplication obtains much with God, because he hath said it shall.
Jobs thoughts had travel'd thorow all the creatures, and found not one of them could stand before God;1 therefore he resolves to fall down before him. I will make supplication. Praier overcometh when nothing else can. Christ conquered by dying, and we conquer by submitting. And yet, it is not supplication, as an act of ours; but supplication, as it is an ordinance of Gods that prevails with him: he looks upon praier, as having the stamp of his own institution; otherwise our greatest humblings could prevail no more then our proudest contendings. The Word preached prevails upon the heart, not as it is the act of a man, who dispenceth it (there is no strength in that) but as it is an ordinance of God, who hath appointed it: So humble supplication obtains much with God, because he hath said it shall.
- 1Etsi opus virtutis exercuero ad vitam, non ex meritis, sed ad veniam convalesco. Preci itaque innitendū est cum recta agimus, ut omne quod justè vivimus, humilitare condiamus. Greg.Etsi opus virtutis exercuero ad vitam, non ex meritis, sed ad veniam convalesco. Preci itaque innitendū est cum recta agimus, ut omne quod justè vivimus, humilitare condiamus. Greg.