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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.
First, The filth and guilt of our own sins. I will sprinkle you (saith the Lord, Ezek. 36.31.) with clean water, &c. What's the effect of this? It follows, Then shall you remember your own evil ways, and loath or be weary of your selves (it is this word) because of all your abominations. As if the Lord had said, before I change your hearts, ye sin, and are not wear•• of your sins, nay, ye make a sport of, and dally with them: But when I shall work that great change upon your hearts, your opinion and apprehensions of sin will change too: nothing will be so bitter or burdensome, so unpleasant or wearisome to your souls as sin. Fools make a mock of sin; they who are truly wise, mourn and groan under the sense and weight of it.
First, The filth and guilt of our own sins. I will sprinkle you (saith the Lord, Ezek. 36.31.) with clean water, &c. What's the effect of this? It follows, Then shall you remember your own evil waies, and loath or be weary of your selves (it is this word) because of all your abominations. As if the Lord had said, before I change your hearts, ye sinne, and are not wear•• of your sins, nay, ye make a sport of, and dally with them: But when I shall work that great change upon your hearts, your opinion and apprehensions of sin will change too: nothing will be so bitter or burdensome, so unpleasant or wearisome to your souls as sinne. Fools make a mock of sin; they who are truly wise, mourn and groan under the sense and weight of it.
Secondly, The unsuitableness and perverseness of other mens manners or dispositions weary the soul, The righteous soul of Lot was vexed from day to day in seeing and hearing the unrighteous deeds of the debauched Sodomites (2 Pet. 2.8.) The soul of God is said to be wearied by such courses of the sons of men (