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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.
4. To forget God is to depart from God. We stay with God no longer then we remember him: as we cannot have communion with truth, so not with the God of truth, without an act of memory (Heb. 12.5.) Ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord &c. A word forgotten is to us of no more use then a word never spoken. We are without all the good we forget; and to forget God is (Ephes. 2.12.) to be without God in the world, or, to live on earth as if there were no God in heaven, either in regard of mercy to be received, or of duty to be performed. Hypocrites forget God all these ways; though their natural memory may be good, yet spiritual memory (and that only holds spiritual things) they have none. Observe hence,
4. To forget God is to depart from God. We stay with God no longer then we remember him: as we cannot have communion with truth, so not with the God of truth, without an act of memory (Heb. 12.5.) Ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord &c. A word forgotten is to us of no more use then a word never spoken. We are without all the good we forget; and to forget God is (Ephes. 2.12.) to be without God in the world, or, to live on earth as if there were no God in heaven, either in regard of mercy to be received, or of duty to be performed. Hypocrites forget God all these waies; though their naturall memory may be good, yet spirituall memory (and that only holds spirituall things) they have none. Observe hence,
First, That the hypocrite is a forgetter of God.
First, That the hypocrite is a forgotter of God.