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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 third step is, custom in sinning. It argues great boldness to venture often. One said of him that had escaped danger at sea,1 If you go again, you have no reason to complain, though you be wracked. Mariners are fearful of storms at first, but through custom they play with them. When a man comes offs once safe from sin, he will venture again, and so often, till at last he thinks there is scarce any venture at all in sin. He grows bold and hardy.
The third step is, custome in sinning. It argues great boldnesse to venture often. One said of him that had escaped danger at sea,1 If you go again, you have no reason to complain, though you be wrack'd. Mariners are fearfull of storms at first, but through custome they play with them. When a man comes ofs once safe from sinne, he will venture again, and so often, till at last he thinks there is scarce any venture at all in sinne. He growes bold and hardy.
- 1Improbè Neptunum accusat, qui iterum naufragium sacit.
By the fourth step of hardness he comes to defend and maintain his sin. He hath spoken so long in his heart against the word, which forbiddeth him to sin, that now he can speak against it with his tongue. He hath a plea or an argument to make the evil he doth good. He appears a Patron, an Advocate for sin, who was before but a practiser of it.
By the fourth step of hardnesse he comes to defend and maintain his sinne. He hath spoken so long in his heart against the word, which forbiddeth him to sin, that now he can speak against it with his tongue. He hath a plea or an argument to make the evil he doth good. He appears a Patron, an Advocate for sin, who was before but a practiser of it.