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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 Lord will shut them up, if they presume and take undue liberty, or grow licentious. They shall be either humbled or destroyed, who turn the grace of God (that is, the manifestation ⟨p. 539⟩of his grace, either by his word or by his works) into wantonness. God will not cocker his own children, and dandle them so, as to forget to correct them, if they forget him and their own duty. If Israel sin, Israel shall smart for it; and if Job sin, Job must look to be laid in prison for it. Thus he speaks, acquitting God from shining upon the counsels of wicked men, seeing he will not spare, no not his own children, if they sin against him.
The Lord will shut them up, if they presume and take undue liberty, or grow licentious. They shall be either humbled or destroyed, who turn the grace of God (that is, the manifestation ⟨p. 539⟩of his grace, either by his word or by his works) into wantonnesse. God will not cocker his own children, and dandle them so, as to forget to correct them, if they forget him and their own duty. If Israel sin, Israel shall smart for it; and if Iob sinne, Iob must look to be laid in prison for it. Thus he speaks, acquitting God from shining upon the counsels of wicked men, seeing he will not spare, no not his own children, if they sinne against him.
Secondly, The sense is given by an Interrogation, If I sin, 1Wilt thou therefore shut me up in prison? Wilt thou not acquit me from mine iniquity? And so he pleadeth with God, as using too much severity and harshness against him, What, shall I be laid by the heels for every fault? Shall I be arrested and clapped up in irons for every sin? Wilt thou imprison me, and not acquit me from mine iniquity? They who are most wicked, deserve no worse then this, and shall I, if I do but sin, receive such measure? Where are thy compassions, and the sounding of thy bowels? are they restrained? It should seem so, else thou wouldest not thus restrain and imprison me.