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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.
But now in these last days (as the Apostle saith Heb. 1.2, 3. passing from those former ways of Revelation described in the first verse) God having spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the Worlds, who is [also] the brightness of his glory, and the express Image of his person: God I say having spoken to us by his Son, and we having now a clearer manifestation of the mind of God then the old fathers had, the Son who once spake to us in person on earth, still speaking to us in the Gospel every day; therefore now for any to look after dreams and visions, or visible apparitions for the revealing of the mind of God, is to go backward to the old state of the Jewish Church, or to the infancy of the Gospel Church, while the Canon or Rule of the Scripture as to all matters of faith and holy life was not fully finished and completed. And though we ought to be far from limiting God, yet he hath limited us from looking after any wisdom in the knowledge of his will above that which is written (1 Cor. 4.6.) The Apostle also testifying by the Spirit of God, that the Scripture is sufficient to make every man wise to salvation and the man of God perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works (that good work especially of helping others to salvation) 1 Tim. 3.15.17.
But now in these last dayes (as the Apostle saith Heb. 1.2, 3. passing from those former wayes of Revelation described in the first verse) God having spoken to us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the Worlds, who is [also] the brightnesse of his glory, and the expresse Image of his person: God I say having spoken to us by his Son, and we having now a clearer manifestation of the mind of God then the old fathers had, the Son who once spake to us in person on earth, still speaking to us in the Gospell every day; therefore now for any to look after dreams and visions, or visible apparitions for the revealing of the mind of God, is to goe backward to the old state of the Jewish Church, or to the infancy of the Gospell Church, while the Canon or Rule of the Scripture as to all matters of faith and holy life was not fully finished and compleated. And though we ought to be farre from limiting God, yet he hath limited us from looking after any wisdome in the knowledge of his will above that which is written (