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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 22
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That want of faith in time of affliction is more grievous then affliction: It is worse not to believe deliverance, then to fall into trouble; as the life of faith is the best life, so the life of unbelief is the worst life. Despair of good is the greatest evil: Faith is not only the support and relief of the soul in trouble, but it is the victory and triumph of the soul over trouble. Faith doth not only keep the soul alive, but lively; Faith keeps the soul fat and in good plight: Faith is a shield, both against temptation, and affliction. But every blow falls upon the bare skin of an unbeliever; Faith is a shield both against the fiery darts of the Devil, and (with a difference) against the fiery darts of God also. Let God himself cast his darts at a Believer, Faith secures him from hurt, though not from wounds, yea his very wounds, through a work of faith, shall work his good.
That want of faith in time of affliction is more greivous then affliction: It is worse not to beleeve deliverance, then to fall into trouble; as the life of faith is the best life, so the life of unbeleife is the worst life. Despaire of good is the greatest evill: Faith is not onely the support and reliefe of the soule in trouble, but it is the victory and tryumph of the soule over trouble. Faith doth not onely keep the soule alive, but lively; Faith keeps the soule fat and in good plight: Faith is a sheild, both against temptation, and affliction. But every blow falls upon the bare skin of an unbeleever; Faith is a sheild both against the fiery darts of the Devill, and (with a difference) against the fiery darts of God also. Let God himselfe cast his darts at a Beleiver, Faith secures him from hurt, though not from wounds, yea his very wounds, through a worke of faith, shall worke his good.
It is the comfort of a man that feareth God, and obeyeth the voice of his Servants, that while he walketh in darkness and hath no light, he is bid to trust in the name of the Lord, and to stay upon his God (Isa. 50.10.) But while a man that doth not fear God, walks in darkness and hath no light, his misery is, that he can neither trust in God till light comes, nor that light will ever come. How happy are the righteous, to whom light ariseth in darkness? How unhappy are the wicked, who being in darkness, conclude that the light will never arise.