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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.
When man is in an evil way, he hath no mind to return till God turneth him; let come on't what will he will venture: 'Tis only through grace that the heart either abstains or returns from evil. David saith (Psal. 18.23.) I have kept my self from mine iniquity. David kept himself from his iniquity, yet he was not his own keeper: It was by the power of God that he kept himself from that sin to which he was most prone, even from that sin to which his own corruptions and the Devils temptations were always drawing him. David had some special iniquity to which his heart was inclined more then any other, and from that he kept himself, being himself kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. Of our selves we can neither keep our selves from doing iniquity, nor leave off doing that iniquity, which we have once done. How can man withhold himself from sin, while sin hath so great a hold of him, yea the Mastery over him?
When man is in an evill way, he hath no mind to returne till God turneth him; let come on't what will he will venture: 'Tis only through grace that the heart either abstains or returns from evill. David saith (Psal. 18.23.) I have kept my self from mine iniquity. David kept himself from his iniquity, yet he was not his own keeper: It was by the power of God that he kept himself from that sin to which he was most prone, even from that sin to which his own corruptions and the Devills temptations were alwayes drawing him. David had some speciall iniquity to which his heart was inclined more then any other, and from that he kept himself, being himself kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation. Of our selves we can neither keep our selves from doing iniquity, nor leave off doing that iniquity, which we have once done. How can man withhold himself from sin, while sin hath so great a hold of him, yea the Mastery over him?
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