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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 emphasis of the word, he keepeth back, importing, that God, as it were by strong hand or absolute authority and command, keepeth the soul of man from the pit.
Note.
Man is very forward to run upon his own ruin, even to run upon eternal ruin, if the Lord did not hold, stay, and stop him.
Man is very forward to run upon his own ruine, even to run upon eternall ruine, if the Lord did not hold, stay, and stop him.
Man would tumble into the pit, at the very next step, if God did not keep him. The way of man naturally is down to the pit, and all that he doth of his own self is for his own undoing: And as he is kept back from the pit, so (as the Apostle Peter hath it, 1 Epist. 1.5.) he is kept by the power of God, through faith unto salvation.
Man would tumble into the pit, at the very next step, if God did not keep him. The way of man naturally is downe to the pit, and all that he doth of his own self is for his own undoing: And as he is kept back from the pit, so (as the Apostle Peter hath it, 1 Epist. 1.5.) he is kept by the power of God, through faith unto salvation.