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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.
Secondly, A wicked man is a customary sinner, he driveth a trade in sin. A godly man (possibly) may commit the same sin again, yet the custom is broken, because he putteth in a plea against sin, and often moveth God for power, not only against, but over it: if he attain not this blessed victory, yet he ceaseth not to complain, and pray, O wretched man that I am, ⟨p. 477⟩who shall deliver me from this body of death? When shall I be delivered from this burden and b••dage of corruption? When shall it once be? O that it might once be! Wicked men are so far from pleading against, that they usually plead for their sins; and labour more to make excuses and apologies for them, then to get power and victory over them. They in stead of making preparation to resist the lusts of the flesh, make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Secondly, A vvicked man is a customary sinner, he driveth a trade in sinne. A godly man (possibly) may commit the same sinne again, yet the custom is broken, because he putteth in a plea against sinne, and often moveth God for power, not only against, but over it: if he attain not this blessed victory, yet he ceaseth not to complain, and pray, O wretched man that I am, ⟨p. 477⟩who shall deliver me from this body of death? When shall I be delivered from this burden and b••dage of corruption? When shall it once be? O that it might once be! Wicked men are so far from pleading against, that they usually plead for their sins; and labour more to make excuses and apologies for them, then to get power and victory over them. They in stead of making preparation to resist the lusts of the flesh, make provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.
Thirdly, A wicked man preserves in himself a purpose to sin, while he seems to pray and protest against his sin. He is (as Augustine confessed of himself before his conversion) afraid God should grant his prayer, while he prayeth that his corruptions may be mortified. He may put up prayers against sin, but he puts up no desires against it. As custom is the rode of our lives, so purposes are the rode of our hearts. What a mans purposes are, such the movings of his heart are (