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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 16
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Vers. 16. How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinketh iniquity like water?
Concerning the Saints, he said only, God puts no trust in them, and concerning the Heavens, They are not clean in his sight: But now that he speaks of man, he doth not say, God puts no trust in him, or he is not clean in his sight; but he lays load upon him, He is abominable and filthy: and as if that were not enough, he aggravates it, with, How much more abominable, &c. If he put no trust in glorified Saints in whom yet there is no iniquity, then no marvel, if man be called abominable, who drinketh iniquity like water.
Concerning the Saints, he sayd onely, God puts no trust in them, and concerning the Heavens, They are not cleane in his sight: But now that he speakes of man, he doth not say, God puts no trust in him, or he is not cleane in his sight; but he layes load upon him, He is abominable and filthy: and as if that were not enough, he aggravates it, with, How much more abominable, &c. If he put no trust in glorified Saints in whom yet there is no iniquity, then no marvell, if man be called abominable, who drinketh iniquity like water.
The whole Verse is a description of mans sinfulness: First, of the sinfulness of his nature, in those words, He is abominable and filthy: Secondly, of the sinfulness of his life, He drinketh iniquity like water.