A35473:1691
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 17
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.
First, That which lives in any known sin unrepented of.
First, That which lives in any knowne sinne unrepented of.
Secondly, That which is unquiet and unsettled about the pardon of those sins which we have repented of.
Secondly, That which is unquiet and unsetled about the pardon of those sins which we have repented of.
We should get both these evil consciences, but especially the first, cured and removed by the sprinkling of the blood of Christ, before we draw nigh to God in prayer: as also our bodies washed in pure water, which is either an allusion to the old Ceremonies among the Jews, who before they came to worship at the Tabernacle, purged themselves with diverse outward washings, leading them to the consideration of that moral purity, both of heart and life, in which God is to be worshipped; or it is an allusion to Baptism in special; in which there is an external washing of the body, signifying the washing of the soul by the blood of Christ, and by the effectual working of the spirit; The sum of all is, unless the person be pure, his prayer is not pure. These are the ingredients which constitute pure prayer; all these met in Job, and therefore he concluded, not only confidently, but truly, My prayer is pure.
We should get both these evil consciences, but especially the first, cured and removed by the sprinkling of the blood of Christ, before we draw nigh to God in prayer: as also our bodies washed in pure water, which is either an allusion to the old Ceremonies among the Jewes, who before they came to worship at the Tabernacle, purged themselves with diverse outward washings, leading them to the consideration of that morall puritie, both of heart and life, in which God is to be worshipped; or it is an allusion to Baptisme in speciall; in which there is an externall washing of the body, signifying the washing of the soule by the blood of Christ, and by the effectuall working of the spirit; The sum of all is, unlesse the person be pure, his prayer is not pure. These are the ingredients which constitute pure prayer; all these met in Job, and therefore he concluded, not onely confidently, but truely, My prayer is pure.