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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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Sin, and sin only makes man abominable, and filthy in the sight of God; nothing can defile the soul but sin; though a man be clothed with filthy garments, though his skin be over-run with filthy sores; though he lye in a stinking Channel, yet the Lord will not say, he is abominable or filthy, in these respects: for even in such a state, or at such a time, Christ may have taken him in his arms and kissed him with the kisses of his lips. But though he go clothed in Scarlet, though he lye in a bed of Ivory, and is perfumed with all the spices of Arabia, yet sin makes him filthy and abominable in the eye of the Lord.
Sin, and sin onely makes man abominable, and filthy in the sight of God; nothing can defile the soule but sin; though a man be cloathed with filthy garments, though his skin be over-run with filthy sores; though he lye in a stinking Channel, yet the Lord will not say, he is abominable or filthy, in these respects: for even in such a state, or at such a time, Christ may have taken him in his armes and kissed him with the kisses of his lips. But though he goe cloathed in Scarlet, though he lye in a bed of Ivory, and is perfumed with all the spices of Arabia, yet sin makes him filthy and abominable in the eye of the Lord.
Secondly Observe.
The multiplied acts of sin are an evidence that man is habitually ⟨p. 70⟩sinful, or that he is abominable and filthy. He that doth righteousness is righteous, and he that doth unrighteousness is unrighteous. If man were not filthy, he could not drink iniquity; that is, feed upon, and delight in sin, which is but filthiness.
The multiplyed acts of sin are an evidence that man is habitually