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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 24
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First, The battle of inward temptation.
First, The battell of inward temptation.
Secondly, The battle of outward affliction.
Secondly, The battell of outward affliction.
We are no match for either, unless Christ be our Second. Satan hath desired thee (saith Christ to P•ter) to winnow thee as Wheat (hoping to find, or make thee Chaff) But I have prayed that thy Faith fail not: Peter fell into temptation, yea he fell in the temptation, yet because Christ undertook for him, the temptation could not prevail against him. And as there is no conquest over Satan's temptation, but by the strength of Christ; so none over affliction (which is Gods temptation) but by the strength of Christ (1 Cor. 10.13.) There hath no temptation (that is, no affliction) taken you, but what is common to man (yet no man can stand under that alone, which may befall any man, therefore it follows) But God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able, &c. Man alone is not sufficient, so much as to think one good thought, how then shall he think good thoughts enow alone, either to scatter a temptation, or to bear an affliction? To carry the soul out in such a conflict requires more then one good thought, yea more then many good thoughts, it requires good actings; yea and sufferings too; how shall he do this without the strength of Christ? No wonder then if the lesser of these, yea the least of the lesser, the least affliction prevail against a wicked man; and if while he runs with Foot-men, they weary him, how shall he contend with Horses, with trouble and anguish, shall not these prevail against him, as a King ready to battle? Which is the illustration of the wicked mans downfall: Trouble and anguish prevail against him: But how? Not a little, not with strength only enough to turn the scale of the conflict, but mightily, even with much strength to spare.