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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 21
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A wicked man is always subject to fear; he that is a servant to sin cannot but be a slave to fear: And he that hath done much evil, suspects much.
A wicked man is alwayes subject to feare; he that is a servant to sin cannot but be a slave to feare: And he that hath done much evill, suspects much.
While we have Peace within, War without doth not much trouble, though it much afflict us. And while our hearts, touched by the spirit of God, make us music, a sound of terror to the ear is not terrible.
While we have Peace within, Warr without doth not much trouble, though it much afflict us. And while our hearts, toucht by the spirit of God, make us musick, a sound of terrour to the eare is not terrible.
1It is said of a godly man (Psal. 112.7.) No evil tidings shall make him fear (though there be a dreadful sound in his ear, a sound of danger, yet) his heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. A wicked man is terrified with conceited danger; a godly man is not afraid when there is real danger. A godly man hath a witness for him in himself; a wicked man carries a witness against him in himself;2 and this witness is also his judge to condemn him, yea his executioner to torment, and vex him; as soon as our first Parents had sinned (Gen. 3.8.) They heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the Garden, in the cool of the day, and Adam and his Wife hid themselves