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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.
It is dangerous refusing the first call, the first Word of God. Possibly, you may never hear more of him or from him, once may be all.
It is dangerous refusing the first call, the first Word of God. Possibly, you may never heare more of him or from him, once may be all.
God may speak in thy case, not only once, that is firmly and certainly, not only once that is sufficiently, but once (that is exclusively, once) and no more for ever. That moving caution of the Apostle is grounded upon such a sad possibility as this (Heb. 3.7.) Wherefore as the holy Ghost saith, to day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts; and again (vers. 13.) Exhort one another daily, while it is called, to day, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. As if it had been said; hear to day, hear this hour of the day, for you know not, first, whether there will be a morrow or another day for you; secondly, if you have a morrow, yet you know not whether you shall have a word to morrow; both time and season, days and opportunities are in the hand of God; and he that neglects the season of one day, hath no assurance of another day, much less of a season with the day. Wh• knows whether the cock shall crow twice or no? possibly the ⟨p. 269⟩cock may crow but once; in what a condition had Peter been if it had been so with him, for after he had (as Christ notwithstanding all his confidence to the contrary, told him (Mark 14.30.) denied his Master thrice, he never called to mind the words of Christ, nor had any thought of humbling himself for what he had done, till (as 'tis said, vers. 72.) The second time the Cock crew. Every one hath not a promise (as Peter equivalently had) that the cock shall crow twice, or that God will afford him means a second time to awaken him out of his sin. That which the Lord spake of affliction, to show the fullness of it, may also be fulfilled concerning his warnings and admonitions (