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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.
We learn.
We learne.
Striving with God is a foolish and a most irrational thing.
Striving with God is a foolish and a most irrationall thing.
Sinners are fools, all sin is folly, irrationality is stamped upon every sin. Striving with God is a sin so eminently foolish as may carry away the bell, for foolishness, from all other sins. I will give you three things, to show why it must needs be so.
Sinners are fooles, all sin is folly, irrationallity is stampt upon every sin. Striving with God is a sin so eminently foolish as may carry away the bell, for foolishnesse, from all other sins. I will give you three things, to shew why it must needs be so.
First, We cannot help our selves by striving with God. Christ argues the folly of inordinate cares from this ground (Math: 6.27.) Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? It is not mans care, but the presence and blessing of God which increaseth both the stature of man and his estate. Cares may break our sleep, yea break our hearts, but they cannot fill our purses, nor heighten our persons, either in a natural or in a civill notion. Is it not then a foolish thing to take inordinate care? is it not greater folly to strive with God? Seeing as by caring you cannot get any of the good things of the world, so by striving with God, you cannot get off any of those evils which he layeth upon you. Secondly, Is it not a very foolish thing to strive with God, seeing we are so far from helping our selves out of trouble by it, that we do but increase our trouble, and the more entangle our selves by it? What do we by struggling but straiten the bonds of our affliction, and get weariness,