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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.
6. An eye of flesh may be deceived. The sight of man is subject to manifold deceptions. Many things put a stop to the sight of the eye. The eye of man is in danger of as many fallacies, as the understanding; and the understanding is entangled with many fallacies by the eye. But there is no error in the sight of God, nor any deception of his eye; you cannot by any art or device, by any policy or hypocrisy, by any masques or disguises, by any simulations or dissimulations make that appear to him, which is not, or make it appear to him otherwise then it is. The heart of man, (saith the Lord) is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? (only the Lord who makes, can answer this challenge, so he doth in the next words) I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. How can that which is deceitful receive according to its doings, but by knowing all its doings and all it's deceits? As the tongue (the greatest troubler of the world) no man can tame: so the heart (the greatest impostor in the world) no man can discover but God, and he can do it easily, and doth it continually.
6. An eye of flesh may be deceived. The sight of man is subject to manifold deceptions. Many things put a stop to the sight of the eye. The eye of man is in danger of as many fallacies, as the understanding; and the understanding is entangled with many fallacies by the eye. But there is no errour in the sight of God, nor any deception of his eye; you cannot by any art or device, by any policy or hypocrisie, by any masques or disguises, by any simulations or dissimulations make that appear to him, which is not, or make it appear to him otherwise then it is. The heart of man, (saith the Lord) is deceitfull above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? (only the Lord who makes, can answer this challenge, so he doth in the next words) I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his waies, and according to the fruit of his doings. How can that which is deceitfull receive according to its doings, but by knowing all its doings and all it's deceits? As the tongue (the greatest troubler of the world) no man can tame: so the heart (the greatest impostour in the world) no man can discover but God, and he can do it easily, and doth it continually.