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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 23
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A man that is not good, is uncertain where to receive any good; Where is it? Though a Believer want bread, yet he knows whither to go for it, and where it is to be had. The earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof, he goes to Heaven for bread as well as for grace; he knows there is bread in the promise, and ⟨p. 116⟩to the promise he goes. The promise hath all things both concerning life, and godliness. Christ who is the bread of life, gives us bread for this life; and having Christ, with him, we have all things else; Bread and clothing, Gold and Silver, are laid up in Christ.
A man that is not good, is uncertaine where to receive any good; Where is it? Though a Beleever want bread, yet he knowes whither to goe for it, and where it is to be had. The earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof, he goes to Heaven for bread as well as for grace; he knowes there is bread in the promise, and ⟨p. 116⟩to the promise he goes. The promise hath all things both concerning life, and godlinesse. Christ who is the bread of life, gives us bread for this life; and having Christ, with him, we have all things else; Bread and cloathing, Gold and Silver, are layd up in Christ.
An Unbeliever (as hath been showed) hath nothing to do with promises, nor with Christ the fulfiller of promises, and therefore he is ever in doubt, when he is in want; and saith, Where is it? He knows not whither to go, nor to whom for the supply of his wants. A wicked man is never in his way, and, in one sense, he is never out of his way. They may go any where, who know not whither to go. They are never out of their way, who have no home. East, West, North, or South, it is all one to them; which way the Staff falls, they go, they have no rule nor line to go by; but though a wicked man know not his particular way, yet he often knows his general end, and that is misery, as the next words tell us.
An Unbeleever (as hath been shewed) hath nothing to doe with promises, nor with Christ the fulfiller of promises, and therefore he is ever in doubt, when he is in want; and saith, Where is it? He knowes not whither to goe, nor to whom for the supply of his wants. A wicked man is never in his way, and, in one sense, he is never out of his way. They may goe any where, who know not whither to goe. They are never out of their way, who have no home. East, West, North, or South, it is all one to them; which way the Staffe falls, they goe, they have no rule nor line to goe by; but though a wicked man know not his particular way, yet he often knowes his generall end, and that is misery, as the next words tell us.