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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
That a wicked man is full of infidelity or unbelief, that his estate is evil, or shall ever be worse then it is.
That a wicked man is full of infidelity or unbeleife, that his estate is evill, or shall ever be worse then it is.
The unbelief of man is as strong against the threatenings, as against the promises: The Saints are hardly brought to believe, that glory shall be their recompense, that the purchase which Christ hath made of Heaven, and eternal happiness belongs to them. A wicked man will not believe that tribulation and anguish shall be upon him, or that the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against his unrighteousness, he will not believe that he shall go to Hell and be damned, or that everlasting fire shall burn him, or the worm that dyes not, feed upon him; he that is deceived will not believe these things, and the Devil hath as great an advantage upon men, by making them strong in unbelief: As God hath, by making his people strong in Faith.
The unbeleife of man is as strong against the threatnings, as against the promises: The Saints are hardly brought to beleeve, that glory shall be their recompence, that the purchase which Christ hath made of Heaven, and eternall happinesse belongs to them. A wicked man will not beleeve that tribulation and anguish shall be upon him, or that the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against his unrighteousnesse, he will not beleeve that he shall goe to Hell and be damned, or that everlasting fire shall burne him, or the worme that dyes not, feed upon him; he that is deceived will not beleeve these things, and the Devill hath as great an advantage upon men, by making them strong in unbeleife: As God hath, by making his people strong in Faith.
The first assault that ever the Devil made against man, was to weaken Faith, or strengthen unbelief about the threatenings: While he laboured to deceive the Woman, he laboured as much to persuade her, That vanity should not be her recompense: God had said peremptorily, In the day that ye eat thereof, ye shall surely dye: The Devil denied as peremptorily, Ye shall not surely dye (