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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 31
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First, Our own hearts which have not only an impotence ⟨p. 173⟩or weakness (as I noted before) whereby they are apt to be deceived, but there is in our hearts an activeness, yea an efficacy to deceive; we are not only passive, but active; we are seldom, if at all, deceived, till we deceive our selves: And as some men are very active in deceiving others, so all men are active in a degree to deceive themselves. (Jer. 17.9.) The heart of man is deceitful and desperately wicked: The heart is deceitful in reference to a threefold object.
First, Our owne hearts which have not onely an impotence ⟨p. 173⟩or weaknesse (as I noted before) whereby they are apt to be deceived, but there is in our hearts an activenesse, yea an efficacy to deceive; we are not onely passive, but active; we are seldome, if at all, deceived, till wee deceive our selves: And as some men are very active in deceiving others, so all men are active in a degree to deceive themselves. (Jer. 17.9.) The heart of man is deceitfull and desperately wicked: The heart is deceitfull in reference to a threefold object.
First, The heart would deceive God himself, and impose upon the All-wise: That's the design of a Hypocrite, his business is to deceive God, though the issue be the deceiving of himself.
First, The heart would deceive God himselfe, and impose upon the All-wise: Thats the designe of a Hypocrite, his businesse is to deceive God, though the issue be the deceiving of himselfe.