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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 6
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Now as it is an argument of the sweetest spirit, and fairest disposition when a man is ready to take either hand, rather then break the peace, so it argues the sourest spirit, and most untractable disposition, when a man will neither go to the right hand nor to the left, when he will neither move forward nor backward; when he will neither give nor take, neither buy nor sell, there is no dealing with such a man, for he waves all the ways of dealing.
Now as it is an argument of the sweetest spirit, and fayrest disposition when a man is ready to take eyther hand, rather then breake the peace, so it argues the sowrest spirit, and most untractable disposition, when a man will neyther goe to the right hand nor to the left, when he will neither move forward nor backward; when he will neither give nor take, neyther buy nor sell, there is no dealing with such a man, for he wav•s all the wayes of dealing.
Thus also we conclude a people incorrigible, who continue in their sins, whether God smite or heal, whether he deliver them from, or deliver them up into the hand of judgements, because these are the utmost bounds, or the extremes of all those providential dispensations which God useth at any time to turn a people from their sin.
Thus also we conclude a people incorrigible, who continue in their sins, whether God smite or heale, whether he deliver them from, or deliver them up into the hand of judgements, because these are the utmost bounds, or the extreames of all those providentiall dispensations which God useth at any time to turne a people from their sin.
Again, We say they are unpersuadable wh•m neither fair means, nor foul, can reduce; speak them fair, they are naught; speak them foul, they are naught still; promise them good, they remain evil, threaten them with evil, they will not be good. You may carry it out in all experiments, wheresoever you find an evil frame of mind or body, or of affairs, which mends not, or doth not alter for the better, by the application of the other contrary, when the former hath been applied without success, you may write under it (as to humane helps) This is a desperate case, a distemper incurable,