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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.
Sixthly, Hard hearts grow too hard for the Word, they are Sermon-proof; they can sit under the Preacher, and hear from day to day, but nothing touches them. A man in armour feels not the stroke of a sword, much less the smart of a rod. This hardness of heart is a steel armour to the heart; it makes the man past feeling, till he be past healing. Some being often reproved harden their hearts (Prov. 29.1.) till their hearts are too hard for all reproofs.
Sixthly, Hard hearts grow too hard for the Word, they are Sermon-proof; they can sit under the Preacher, and hear from day to day, but nothing touches them. A man in armour feels not the stroak of a sword, much lesse the smart of a rod. This hardnesse of heart is a steel armour to the heart; it makes the man past feeling, till he be past healing. Some being often reproved hurden their hearts (Prov. 29.1.) till their hearts are too hard for all reproofes.
And then seventhly, The heart is so hard that the sword of affliction doth not pierce it, the man is judgement-proof: let God strike him in his person or estate, let God set the world a fire about his ears, yet on goes he. He is like the man of whom Solomon speaks, (Prov. 23.34.) who lies sleeping in a storm upon the top of a mast.
Eighthly, The hard heart sits down in the chair of the scorner, he derides the Word, and mocks at the judgements of God. When Lot spake to his sons in law about fire and brimstone, ready to fall upon Sodom and consume it, the text saith, He seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in Law? what, tell us of judgements? of fire