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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, Others reason thus, Christ hath delivered his people, the elect, from all that punishment, which the sin of Adam did contract and deserve; but Christ hath not delivered his elect, his own people, from turning to the dust. Godly men die as well as the ungodly, believers as well as infidels, therefore (say they) the death of the body was not procured by sin.
I answer, Whatsoever is an evil in death, Christ hath delivered his people from; he hath taken away all that from death, which is punishment or annoyance, though death be not taken away. Christ hath freed us from the effects of sin, as he hath freed us from sin it self, that is, from their prevalence and dominion over us, not from their presence or being in and upon us. Hence the Apostle (1 Cor. 15.) triumpheth over death, O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? As if he had said, Death once had a power over man to sting him to death, death once had a victorious power, and would have bin the great ⟨p. 510⟩conqueror, riding in triumph over all the posterity of Adam: but now death hath neither sting nor sword to use against believers, it hath nothing of victory over the Saints. It is now but a sleep, a sleep in Christ, a rest from labour, a putting off the rags, the worn rags of mortality, that we may be dressed in the robes of glory. The evil of death is removed, and that which remains of death (the separation of soul and body) proves the greatest good to both, it being but a preparatory to their everlasting union.
I answer, Whatsoever is an evil in death, Christ hath delivered his people from; he hath taken away all that from death, which is punishment or annoiance, though death be not taken away. Christ hath freed us from the effects of sin, as he hath freed us from sin it self, that is, from their prevalence and dominion over us, not from their presence or being in and upon us. Hence the Apostle (1 Cor. 15