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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 8
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Hence Observe.
First, Great afflictions leave their marks behind them.
First, Great afflictions leave their marks behinde them.
Little afflictions leave no wrinkles, no leanness behind them, we recover out of them, and nothing appears of them; as it is in sinning, some sins leave no mark, such are our daily infirmities, and common failings; but there are other sins, which leave a mark behind them, you cannot get them off suddenly, it may be you cannot claw off the marks of some sins as long as you live: though the sin be fully pardoned, yet the mark, the wrinkle, the leanness of it may remain to your dying day. David being defiled with adultery and murder, prays, Cause the bones which thou hast broken to rejoice: Those two were such sins as broke his very bones; they were to his soul, as the breaking of a bone is to the body: If a man break a bone, though it be well Set, yet it leaves a mark. David carried the scar of those sins to his Grave: Though God had forgiven those sins, and did not remember them, to impute them to David, yet when God had occasion to speak of David to his highest commendation, he could not forbear the mention of those sins (1 Kings 15.5.) David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah. The wrinkle or stain of that sin stuck upon Davids reputation, when the guilt of it was quite removed, and washed off from his person. 'Tis so with afflictions, some afflictions leave no mark, others go deep: Though all afflictions are light comparatively to the weight of glory, as the Apostle speaks (