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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.
The body of man in the state of innocency had an immortality, by the gift of God; yet with condition, that he did submit to that rule which God gave him to live by. Do this and live, 1was the law of Adams life. Adam had not an impossibility to die, but a possibility not to die; This was the state of immortality in the state of innocency. Man had not fallen into the grave, if he had not fallen into transgression. His life was made as long as his obedience, if he had not turned from God, he had not returned to the earth. Death was conveyed in by sin, and our possibility not to die, was not only lost, but changed into a necessity of dying. So then, man is brought to dust, not because his nature was subject to corruption, but because sin hath corrupted his nature. When he abused the liberty of his will, he was subjected to this necessity against his will. By an irreversible ordinance of heaven, It is appointed unto men once to die, Heb. 9.27. Job speaks, to that point of Gods law concerning man, Thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into the dust again.
The body of man in the state of innocency had an immortality, by the gift of God; yet with condition, that he did submit to that rule which God gave him to live by. Doe this and live, 1was the law of Adams life. Adam had not an impossibility to die, but a possibility not to die; This was the state of immortality in the state of innocency. Man had not fallen into the grave, if he had not fallen into transgression. His life was made as long as his obedience, if he had not turned from God, he had not returned to the earth. Death was convaied in by sin, and our possibility not to die, was not only lost, but changed into a necessity of dying. So then, man is brought to dust, not because his nature was subject to corruption, but because sin hath corrupted his nature. When he abused the liberty of his will, he was subjected to this necessity against his will. By an irreversible ordinance of heaven, It is appointed unto men once to die, Heb. 9.27. Iob speaks, to that point of Gods law concerning man, Thou hast made me as the clay, and thou wilt bring me into the dust again.