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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1650
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AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 16 › Verse 4
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In this sense Job seems to speak here, I could shake my head at you: I have indeed been as one mocked of his Friend (Chap. 12.4.) and I could mock my Friends, I could laugh at your calamity, and mock when your fear cometh; but my conscience bears witness with me, that if it should come, I would not.
In this sense Job seemes to speake here, I could shake my head at you: I have indeed been as one mocked of his Freind (Chap. 12.4.) and I could mock my Freinds, I could laugh at your calamity, and mocke when your feare commeth; but my conscience beares witnesse with me, that if it should come, I would not.
Hence Note.
First, A godly man hath a power to do that evil which he hath no will to do.
First, A godly man hath a power to doe that evill which he hath no will to doe.
A carnal man hath a will to many evils, for which he hath no power or opportunity: A godly man would not do any evil, how much power and opportunity soever he hath. And indeed though he hath a natural, or civill, yet he hath not a moral power to do any evil. In which sense the Apostle speaks of a regenerate person, (