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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.
First, from the natural pravity of his heart, and the blindness of his mind. Of such the Apostle saith (Eph. 4.18.) They have their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart. And hence he concludes (1 Cor. 2.14.) The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned; spiritual objects must have a spiritual eye to see them.
First, from the naturall pravity of his heart, and the blindnesse of his mind. Of such the Apostle saith (Eph. 4.18.) They have their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindnesse of their heart. And hence he concludes (1 Cor. 2.14.) The naturall man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishnesse to him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned; spirituall objects must have a spirituall eye to see them.
Secondly, this comes to pass sometimes from the judgment of God upon carnal men; who as in mercy he causeth the blind to see, so in wrath he striketh those that have no mind to see with greater blindness, and punisheth their former rebellion and obstinacy against the word received with an impotency to perceive it. Yea God doth not only leave such in the blindness of their mind and dullness of their understanding, but gives them up to it. The Prophet Isaiah was a Gospel Preacher, he held out the light clearly, yet his hearers were under such a doom, that the very light which he held out blinded them; so that the more he spake the less they perceived (