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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 15 › Verse 15
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Vers. 15. Behold, he putteth no trust in his Saints, and the heavens are not clean in his sight: How much more abominable and filthy is man, &c.
Vers. 15. Behold, he putteth no trust in his Saints, and the heavens are not cleane in his sight: How much more abominable and filthy is man, &c.
The Argument rises thus:
If they who are the purest, the holyest creatures, are not able to stand before God in their own purity; how shall he who hath no purity, no holiness at all in him?
If they who are the purest, the holyest creatures, are not able to stand before God in their owne purity; how shall he who hath no purity, no holinesse at all in him?
But the Heavens, yea the Angels in Heaven, who are the purest, the holyest creatures, are yet unclean in the sight of God: