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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.
Again, join it with the object of hope, thus,
Again, joyn it with the object of hope, thus,
All that an hypocrite hopeth for or expects, shall be utterly taken away, and cut off from him.
His worldly comfort will be gone, and heavenly comforts will never come. He shall find that he hath been in a golden dream, that he hath been, as one that is hungry, who dreameth that he is eating, but when he awakes his soul is empty; or, as a thirsty man, that dreams he is drinking, but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, Isa. 29.8. When dreams satisfy hunger and thirst, the hypocrites hope shall be satisfied. Hypocrites shall have as good as they bring. They bring God nothing but words and empty professions; and they ⟨p. 89⟩shall have nothing from God, but air and empty expectations; their real hopes, or the thing they hoped for shall be cut off. When hypocrites awake out of their sleep, their hopes vanish as a dream. Not only doth the world, but the Christ on whom they hoped, prove a shadow, a fancy, an image, an idol of their own making; Their hearts were filled with leaves, instead of gold, as the devil cousins his greedy votaries, Their hope shall be cut off.
His worldly comfort will be gone, and heavenly comforts will never come. He shall finde that he hath been in a golden dream, that he hath been, as one that is hungry, who dreameth that he is eating, but when he awakes his soul is empty; or, as a thirsty man, that dreams he is drinking, but he awakes, and behold, he is faint,