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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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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 (Gen. 3.4.) The people were commanded to say Amen to every branch of the Curse (Deut. 27.16, 17, &c.) Though it be the lowest way of obedience to obey, because we believe the truth, and certainty of the Curse; yet it is a high act of obedience to believe it: And Satan is as busy against our faith, in the threatenings, as he is against our faith in promises. This unbelief opens the way to the committing of sin, and sweetens sin while we are committing it: Were it not ⟨p. 185⟩for this unbelief sin could not be bread, much less (as it is to many) pleasant bread. Sin would be Gall and Wormwood in the acting of it, did we believe, that it will be bitterness in the end. Who would do the work of sin, did he believe that vanity should be his recompense? Because this threat is not believed, therefore the Law which forbids sin, is not obeyed. As Faith is a shield to the new Man, so unbelief is a shield to the old Man; as Faith quenches the fiery darts of the Devil, or his allurements to sin; so unbelief quenches all the fiery darts of God, or his threatenings of punishment. Tush say they, We shall never see Sword nor Famine, we need not fear (which is so much talked of) death or Hell: Vanity shall not be our recompense.
The first assault that ever the Devill made against man, was to weaken Faith, or strengthen unbeleife about the threatnings: While he laboured to deceive the Woman, he laboured as much to perswade her, That vanity should not be her recompence: God had sayd peremptorily, In the day that ye eate thereof, yee shall surely dye: The Devill denyed as peremptorily, Yee shall not surely dye (Gen. 3.4.) The people were commanded to say Amen to every branch of the Curse (Deut. 27.16, 17