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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 greatest Monarchs in the world have at one time or other found their matches, but the great God never found his match. 1Pharaoh contended with him, but did he prosper in it? You see what became of him at last, he was drowned in the red sea. Julian contended with Christ, he scoffed at him, (he came up to the highest degrees, he sate in the chair of the scorner, and in the tribunal of the persecutor) but what got he at last? When he was wounded and threw up his blood toward heaven, said he not? O Galilean, thou hast overcome: I acknowledge thy power, whose name and truth I have opposed. Christ whom he had derided, and against whom he hardened himself into scorns and scoffs, was too hard for him. All that harden themselves against God shall be worsted. Gather your selves together, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces (Isa. 8.9.) Gather your selves together: against whom? Gather your selves together against the people of God, and ye shall be broken in pieces; Why? Emanuel, the Lord is with us. If no man can prosper by hardening himself against the people of God, because the Lord is with them, how shall any man ⟨p. 168⟩prosper by hardening himself immediately against God? If Emanuel will not let any prosper against his people, certainly he will not let any prosper against himself. Therefore (Prov. 28.24.) Solomon lays it down directly, He that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief; and (Prov. 29.1.) He shall be destroyed, and that without remedy; there is no help for it, all the world cannot save him. A hard heart is it self the forest of all judgements, and it brings all judgements upon us. A hard heart treasureth up wrath against the day of wrath (Rom. 2.5.) As a hard heart is Satan's treasury for sin: so it is Gods treasury for wrath. The walls of that fiery Tophet are built up with these stones, with their hard hearts, who turn themselves into stones against the Lord.
The greatest Monarchs in the world have at one time or other found their matches, but the great God never found his match.