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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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That wicked men abuse the good gifts of God, and turn them against God himself: They use their hand, properly taken, against God; as also their metaphorical hand, their whole strength against God; they stretch their authority, their high places, their parts, and wits against God; they form weapons out of all the good gifts of God, to fight against God; such sinning is out of measure sinful. The idle Servant was condemned, who did not employ and improve the one Talent which he had received, to his Masters advantage; of how much sorer condemnation shall they be thought worthy who employ their many Talents to their Masters loss, and disadvantage?
That wicked men abuse the good gifts of God, and turne them against God himselfe: They use their hand, properly taken, against God; as also their metaphoricall hand, their whole strength against God; they stretch their authority, their high places, their parts, and wits against God; they forme weapons out of all the good gifts of God, to fight against God; such sinning is out of measure sinfull. The idle Servant was condemned, who did not employ and improve the one Talent which he had received, to his Masters advantage; of how much sorer condemnation shall they be thought worthy who employ their many Talents to their Masters losse, and disadvantage?
Lastly Observe.
Sin is the greatest evil. That must needs be the greatest evil which opposeth the greatest good: God is the greatest good, every sin is against God, and some sins directly oppose God. The Apostle argues the evil of sin, from the opposition it makes ⟨p. 133⟩against us (1 Pet. 2.11.) Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers, and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts (he doth not say, which fight against, or dishonour God, but) which war against the soul: We have no reason to be dallying with lusts, or to be friends with them, when we hear that our lusts war against us; but when we remember that our lusts war against God, we should not only abstain from them, but abhor them. Every thing is by so much the worse, by how much that is better which it is contrary unto: There are four considerations which heighten the evil of sin upon this account, that it is a stretching out of the hand against God.