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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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It is a part of the misery of man, that his state is changeable, but that is incident to the best of men: We shall not ⟨p. 183⟩be unchangeable in our state, till we come into the presence of God, who is unchangeable in his nature. We may say also (considering the many troubles which we are subject to in this life) that it is a part of our happiness, that our state is changeable. Those changes which are from evil to good, or from good to better, are to be numbered among our blessings; such are the changes of the Saints, all their changes are for the better: yea those changes of the Saints which are from joy to sorrow, from riches to poverty, from health to sickness, from liberty to a prison, from life to death, in a word, their changes from any kind of outward temporary good, to outward temporary evil, are yet for their good. He cannot change but for his good, who is good, and who abides always under this promise, that all shall work together for his good.
It is a part of the misery of man, that his state is changeable, but that is incident to the best of men: We shall not ⟨p. 183⟩be unchangeable in our state, till we come into the presence of God, who is unchangeable in his nature. We may say also (considering the many troubles which we are subject to in this life) that it is a part of our happinesse, that our state is changeable. Those changes which are from evill to good, or from good to better, are to be numbred among our blessings; such are the changes of the Saints, all their changes are for the better: yea those changes of the Saints which are from joy to sorrow, from riches to poverty, from health to sicknesse, from liberty to a prison, from life to death, in a word, their changes from any kinde of outward temporary good, to outward temporary evill, are yet for their good. He cannot change but for his good, who is good, and who abides alwayes under this promise, that all shall work together for his good.
An evil and a good man differ in nothing more then in their changes; nor should any self-consideration provoke an evil man more to desire that he may be changed to good, then this, that his changes may be for good. Who would continue or trust in vanity, were he persuaded that vanity shall be his change?