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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.
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 (Nahum 1.9.) I will make an utter end, affliction shall not rise up the second time: We should hear at first speaking, lest it should prove that when the Lord hath spoken once, he should make an utter end, and say, instruction and admonition shall not rise up a second time. And to be sure, as Abraham after he had interceded for Sodom and Gomorrah several times, said at last (Gen. 18.32.) O let not the Lord he angry, and I will speak yet but this once. So the Lord when he hath spoken oft to sinners and is not heard grows so angry, that he comes at last and saith, I will speak yet but this once. God will at last come to his, but once more to all men; and with some he is at his once at first and no more for ever.