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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.
Thirdly, If Ministers be the messengers of Christ, surely then, they are to be heard, and their message is to be received; if God sends a messenger to us, shall we not open the door to him? if a friend send a messenger to us, he takes it very ill (and well ⟨p. 374⟩he may) if we do not. 'Tis below civility, 'tis an high affront to a man not to receive his message, what is it then to the most high God! How dreadful is that woe which Christ pronounceth against such as refuse either his messengers, or their message, (Math: 10.14, 15.) Whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words; When ye depart out of that house or City, shake off the dust of your feet; Implying, that God would so shake them off, or esteem them no more then the vilest dust. Yea (as another Gospel hath it (Mark 6.11.) implying, that as they had not received the testimony which his messengers bare of him, so their dust should be kept as a testimony against them. And lest the mischief threatened them in this enigmatical or covert speech should not be understood, Christ himself expounds it in the next words, Verily, I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgement, then for that City.
Thirdly, If Ministers be the messengers of Christ, surely then, they are to be heard, and their message is to be received; if God sends a messenger to us, shall we not open the doore to him? if a friend send a messenger to us, he takes it very ill (and well ⟨p. 374⟩he may) if we doe not. 'Tis below civility, 'tis an high affront to a man not to receive his message, what is it then to the most high God! How dreadfull is that woe which Christ pronounceth against such as refuse either his messengers, or their message, (Math: 10.14, 15.) Whosoever shall not receive you, nor heare your words; When ye depart out of that house or City, shake off the dust of your feete; Implying, that God would so shake them off, or esteeme them no more then the vilest dust. Yea (as another Gospel hath it (Mark 6.11.) implying, that as they had not received the testimony which his messengers bare of him, so their dust should be kept as a testimony against them. And lest the mischiefe threatned them in this aenigmatical or covert speech should not be understood, Christ himselfe expounds it in the next words, Verily, I say unto you, it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of Judgement, then for that City.