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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.
Tenthly, Pride is ready to rise in the heart of man from that divine light & those extraordinary Revelations which he receives from God; and it is hard to keep the heart under when God discovers very much of himself to man. This was Pauls case (2 Cor: 12.7.) Lest I should be lifted up above measure through the abundance of revelations, there was given me a thorn in the ⟨p. 311⟩flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me. Even Paul in that case needed a thorn in his flesh to let out or prevent the Impostumation of his spirit. Some conceive the reason why the Prophet Ezekiel is so often called, Son of Man, was to keep him humble, while he had many revelations from God.
Tenthly, Pride is ready to rise in the heart of man from that divine light & those extraordinary Revelations which he receives from God; and it is hard to keep the heart under when God discovers very much of himselfe to man. This was Pauls case (2 Cor: 12.7.) Lest I should be lifted up above measure through the aboundance of revelations, there was given me a thorne in the ⟨p. 311⟩flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me. Even Paul in that case needed a thorne in his flesh to let out or prevent the Impostumation of his spirit. Some conceive the reason why the Prophet Ezekiel is so often called, Son of Man, was to keepe him humble, while he had many revelations from God.
Eleventhly, Some have been proud not only of divine and heavenly, but of diabolical and hellish Revelations. We read of one Theudas boasting himself to be some body (Acts 5.36.) This vain man pretended revelations from God, which were indeed from the Devil; And he swelled with this conceit, boasted himself to be some body, that is, he thought himself to be every body; as if the perfections of all men were Centered in him, or as if all others were no body, and he himself the only some body. The Apostle (