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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
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.
Doth it suite the condition, or become the state of man to do so? it doth not become man as a creature to strive with God, much less as a new creature, as a professed servant of God, as a Saint, as a Christian. We never act so unlike either creatures, or new creatures, Saints, and Christians, as when we strive with God. 'Tis a shame for a child to strive with his father, or for a servant to strive with his Master, how much more for a creature to strive with his Creator, man with God?
Doth it suite the condition, or become the state of man to doe so? it doth not become man as a creature to strive with God, much lesse as a new creature, as a professed servant of God, as a Saint, as a Christian. We never act so unlike either creatures, or new creatures, Saints, and Christians, as when we strive with God. 'Tis a shame for a childe to strive with his father, or for a servant to strive with his Master, how much more for a creature to strive with his Creator, man with God?
Fourthly, The rebuke which Elihu gave Job, did not only import the uncomeliness of his striving with God, but the sinfulness of it.
Fourthly, The rebuke which Elihu gave Job, did not only import the uncomelinesse of his striving with God, but the sinfulnesse of it.
Hence note.