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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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That for a man to be assured of his own misery is the height of misery: Eliphaz puts it here among the punishments of wicked men. This assurance makes his heart shake, this knowledge is full of fear, and therefore full of torment. As to know that a day of light and deliverance is ready at hand, is light while we are in darkness, and deliverance while we are in trouble: So to know that a day of darkness and misery is ready at hand, is darkness to wicked men while they are in external light, and misery in the midst of all their mirth. And as it is the highest comfort of the Saints to know that they have eternal life, to know that they are in the favour, and live in the love of God; (a man may be in it, and not know it, and then though he shall do well at last, yet his state is but uncomfortable, and he that is an heir of Heaven, may walk as an heir of Hell, with a troubled spirit) but to know that it is so, this is Heaven before we come at Heaven; so it is the deepest sorrow of any man in this life, to know that he hath eternal death; an assurance of this, settled upon the spirit (though I conceive a man cannot have an absolute assurance of it, yet to have strong impressions ⟨p. 119⟩upon the spirit, that he shall never be saved, or that Hell is prepared for him) this is Hell before he is cast into Hell.
That for a man to be assured of his owne misery is the height of misery: Eliphaz puts it here among the punishments of wicked men. This assurance makes his heart shake, this knowledge is full of feare, and therefore full of torment. As to know that a day of light and deliverance is ready at hand, is light while we are in darknesse, and deliverance while we are in trouble: So to know that a day of darknesse and misery is ready at hand, is darknesse to wicked men while they are in externall light, and misery in the midst of all their mirth. And as it is the highest comfort of the Saints to know that they have eternall life, to know that they are in the favour, and live in the love of God; (a man may be in it, and not know it, and then though he shall doe well at last, yet his state is but uncomfortable, and he that is an heyre of Heaven, may walke as an heyre of Hell, with a troubled spirit) but to know that it is so, this is Heaven before we come at Heaven; so it is the deepest sorrow of any man in this life, to know that he hath eternall death; an assurance of this, setled upon the spirit (though I conceive a man cannot have an absolute assurance of it, yet to have strong impressions ⟨p. 119⟩