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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 25
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Secondly, There is a stretching out the hand against God, not only in this open bold challenge, or professed opposition; this very few will own. Few Atheists will speak out their blasphemy, or send their Trumpet to defy God; and most wicked men take a suspicion of this, as the highest dishonour and affront that can be put upon them. What? They oppose God? They stretch out their hand against God? They will tell you, they love God, and it may be they will tell you that God is their God, and yet will be found stretching out their hand against God: therefore not only do his professed Enemies stretch out their hand against God, but even those ⟨p. 129⟩his professed Friends, who live in the open violation of his righteous Laws; they who oppose the will and Word of God, the Statutes and Ordinances of God, these will be found to stretch forth their hand against God himself.
Secondly, There is a stretching out the hand against God, not onely in this open bold challenge, or professed opposition; this very few will owne. Few Atheists will speak out their blasphemy, or send their Trumpet to defie God; and most wicked men take a suspicion of this, as the highest dishonour and affront that can be put upon them. What? They oppose God? They stretch out their hand against God? They will tell you, they love God, and it may be they will tell you that God is their God, and yet will be found s•retching out their hand against God: therefore not onely doe his professed Enemies stretch out their hand against God, but even those ⟨p. 129⟩his professed Friends, who live in the open violation of his righteous Laws; they who oppose the will and Word of God, the Statutes and Ordinances of God, these will be found to stretch forth their hand against God himselfe.
The Lord complains (Mal. 3.13.) Your words have been stout against me: Who? we stout against God? when did we speak against God? we never had such a thought in our hearts, much less, such words in our mouths: So it follows, Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? The Lord tells them (because it seems they could not) Vers. 14 Ye have said it is a vain thing to serve the Lord, and what profit have we, that we have kept his Ordinances, and ye call the proud happy, &c. To speak, or think thus (though such a word be not spoken formally, as it is probable they did not) is to be stout against God. To say, It is a vain thing to serve the Lord, is not only a disservice, but a Rebellion against the Lord: To say, There is no profit in keeping his Ordinances, is the highest profanation of his Ordinances; to call, The proud happy, is to stretch out the hand against God, for he stretcheth out his hand against, and resisteth the proud.