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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 19
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From the second Observe.
That it is the happiness of a people to be free from the mixture of evil men, whether such whose worship is impure or Doctrine untrue: The Lord made frequent promises of this happiness to his people (Isa. 52.1.) From henceforth there shall no more come into them, the uncircumcised, and the unclean; which is as much as to say, The stranger (for all uncircumcised persons were strangers) shall not come into thee. We have the like promise (Joel 3.17.) So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God, dwelling in Zion, my holy Mountain, then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no stranger pass through her; Why not any stranger? Forget not to entertain strangers, saith the Apostle (Heb. 13.•.) Jerusalem in her best days shall have strangers, to be visited and relieved by her, but Jerusalem should have no strangers in those days to defile and pollute her (Na. 1.15.) Behold upon the Mountain the feet of him that bringeth good tidings; for the wicked shall no more pass through thee, for he is cut off: The Hebrew is, Belial shall no more pass through thee. Belial is he that cannot endure to serve; he will not yield obedience to the holy commands of God, he casts off the yoke of Christ, and pulls the shoulder from his burden. This Belial shall no more pass through thee. The purest times of the Gospel are presented under a like promise (Zach. 14.21.) In that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of Hosts; That is, the stranger and uncircumcised, the wicked and ungodly, shall no more be mixed with his people.
That it is the happinesse of a people to be free from the mixture of evill men, whether such whose worship is impure or Doctrine untrue: The Lord made frequent promises of this happinesse to his people (