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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.
Hence note.
A sense of divine displeasure, or the hiding of divine favour from the soul, renders all outward comforts comfortless to us.
A sense of divine displeasure, or the hideing of divine favour from the soule, renders all outward comforts comfortlesse to us.
If a man have never so much health, yet the appearances of divine displeasure will make him sick of his most pleasant things. Carnal men can eat and drink, and live upon pleasures, yea upon the pleasures of sin, and go on merrily with them a while, because they know not the meaning of the displeasure of God, nor do they know what the favour of God meaneth; they understand not what they want, yea they flatter themselves that they have enough, and are well enough, though they have nothing, and are nothing, that is of any worth. But if God once awaken them out of this dream, and show them their cursed condition, all will be gall and wormwood to their taste, or as gravel between their teeth. As the sense of divine favour makes bitter things sweet, and sorrowful things comfortable to us, the sour herbs of affliction dainties to us; So not only common but dainty meat, all the cates and viands of this world will be not only tasteless but bitter to us when God frowns upon us. An earnest in the love and favour of God is the good of all good things.
If a man have never so much health, yet the appearances of divine displeasure will make him sick of his most pleasant things. Carnall men can eat and drink, and live upon pleasures, yea upon the pleasures of sin, and goe on merrily with them a while, because they know not the meaning of the displeasure of God, nor doe they know what the favour of God meaneth; they understand not what they want, yea they flatter themselves that they have enough, and are well enough, though they have nothing, and are nothing, that is of any worth. But if God once awaken them out of this dreame, and shew them their cursed condition, all will be gall and wormwood to their taste, or as gravel between their teeth. As the sense of divine favour makes bitter things sweet, and sorrowfull things comfortable to us, the soure herbs of affliction dainties to us; So not only common but dainty meat, all the cates and viands of this world will be not only tastless but bitter to us when God frownes upon us. An earnest in the love and favour of God is the good of all good things.