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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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Hence Observe.
When wicked men think themselves most safe, they are nearest to destruction. 'Tis seldom that they think themselves safe, and when they do, they are furthest from safety. When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed for ever (Psal. ⟨p. 102⟩92.7.) Their temporal, short spring, is not only an antecedent, but an argument of their eternal Winter. And their Winter is not the going down of the sap to the root, but the pulling of them up by the roots; they shall be destroyed.
When wicked men thinke themselves most safe, they are neerest to destruction. 'Tis seldome that they thinke themselves safe, and when they doe, they are furthest from safety. When the wicked spring as the grasse, and when all the workers of iniquity doe flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed for ever (Psal. ⟨p. 102⟩92.7.) Their temporall, short spring, is not onely an antecedent, but an argument of their eternall Winter. And their Winter is not the going downe of the sap to the root, but the pulling of them up by the roots; they shall be destroyed.
(Job 20.22.) In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: When it is full Sea with him, his Channel shall be dried up. It was said to that Fool (