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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 15
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Again, the heavens are furthest removed from all earthly dregs and dross,1 so that they are clean, not only in regard of their nature and constitution, but also in regard of their site and position; being placed so far from the sink of the World, the earth, they never received any stain or defilement from it; yet these heavens are not clean in his sight. God doth not make that which is clean, not clean by his seeing it; but his sight is infinitely above all the cleanness which he sees. That may be clean, considered simply or in it self, which before God, or to the eye of God, is as an unclean thing.
Againe, the heavens are furthest removed from all earthly dregs and drosse,1 so that they are cleane, not onely in regard of their nature and constitution, but also in regard of their site and position; being placed so far from the sinck of the World, the earth, they never received any staine or defilement from it; yet these heavens are not cleane in his sight. God doth not make that which is cleane, not cleane by his seeing it; but his sight is infinitely above all the cleannesse which he sees. That may be cleane, considered simply or in it selfe, which before God, or to the eye of God, is as an uncleane thing.
- 1In conspectu ejus. Aliud est purum esse simpliciter, & aliud purum esse coram Deo; ut justus, & justus coram Deo differunt. Luc. 1. 6. Drus.
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