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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 15 › Verse 12
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Consider further how the heart carrieth us away, even from spiritual duties and holy services; and this is not only the case of carnal men (who are given up to their hearts lusts) but of the Saints; their hearts are continually lifting at them, and sometimes they are carried quite away from Prayer, and from hearing the Word: the heart lifts the man up, and steals him out of the Congregation, while his body remains there, the body sits still, but the mind, which is the man, is gone, either about worldly business and designs, or about worldly pleasures and delights. He stirs not a foot, nor moves a finger, and yet he is carried all the World over: ⟨p. 45⟩He visits both the Indies, yet steps not over his own threshold. Thus the heart being carried away, carrieth the man away. And that's the reason why God calls so earnestly,1 My Son give me thy heart; for where our hearts go, we go, or we are carried with them; Keep thy heart with all diligence (Prov. 4.24.) or, With all keeping, or above all keeping; it must have double keeping, double guards, keep, keep, watch, watch, thy heart will be gone else, and thou wilt go with it; if thou look not to thy heart, thy heart will quickly withdraw it self, and draw thee along also: Why doth thy heart carry thee away? is a deserved check upon every man, when his heart doth so; and Let not thy heart carry thee away, is a necessary caution for every man, lest his heart should do so. Jobs heart was too busy with him, though not so busy as Eliphaz judged, when he thus checked him, with, Why doth thy heart carry thee away?
Consider further how the heart carryeth us away, even from spirituall duties and holy services; and this is not only the case of carnall men (who are given up to their hearts lusts) but of the Saints; their hearts are continually lifting at them, and sometimes they are carryed quite away from Prayer, and from hearing the Word: the heart lifts the man up, and steales him out of the Congregation, while his body remaines there, the body sits still, but the minde, which is the man, is gone, either about worldly businesse and designes, or about worldly pleasures and delights. He stirres not a foot, nor moves a finger, and yet he is carryed all the World over: ⟨p. 45⟩