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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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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.
Sin is the greatest evill. That must needs be the greatest evill 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 evill of sin, from the opposition it makes ⟨p. 133⟩against us (1 Pet. 2.11.) Dearely beloved, I beseech you as strangers, and pilgrims, abstaine from fleshly lusts (he doth not say, which fight against, or dishonour God, but) which warr against the soule: We have no reason to be dallying with lusts, or to be freinds with them, when we heare that our lusts warr against us; but when we remember that our lusts warr against God, we should not onely abstaine from them, but abhorr them. Every thing is by so much the worse, by how much that is better which it is contrary unto: There are foure considerations which heighten the evill of sinne upon this account, that it is a stretching out of the hand against God.