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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.
Now as God acts very graciously in drawing man to good, so Secondly, in withdrawing him from evil, from those evil purposes and evil practices, to which all men are so easily yet so strongly carried. The Prophet (Jer. 2. ⟨p. 100⟩23, 24.) elegantly describes the exceeding forwardness of that people to evil, while he compareth them to the swift Dromedary, traversing her ways, and to the wild Ass in the Wilderness that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure (or the desire of her heart) in her occasion who can turn her away? As the wild Ass set upon her pleasure, & in her occasion, when she hath a mind to it, will not be turned away; such is the heart of man. That other Prophet (Isa. 5.18.) telleth us of those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope; that is, they set themselves with all their might to do mischief. When men are thus vainly bent upon vanity, 'tis a mighty work of God to withdraw them from their work. When, what men are purposed to do they are fastened to it as with cords and cart-ropes, what but the power of the great God can withdraw them from it?
Now as God acts very graciously in drawing man to good, so Secondly, in withdrawing him from evill, from those evill purposes and evill practices, to which all men are so easily yet so strongly carried. The Prophet (Jer. 2. ⟨p. 100⟩23, 24.) elegantly describes the exceeding forwardnesse of that people to evill, while he compareth them to the swift Dromodary, traversing her wayes, and to the wild Asse in the Wildernesse that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure (or the desire of her heart) in her occasion who can turn her away? As the wild Asse set upon her pleasure, & in her occasion, when she hath a mind to it, will not be turn'd away; such is the heart of man. That other Prophet (Isa. 5.18