A35535:1647
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.
So then, 'tis not as popish Expounders tell us, I have found a ransom, that is, I have found the mans good works, I have found his repentance, I have found his tears, his prayers, his alms. I now see that in him for which I may be propitious to him, and ⟨p. 407⟩deliver him from the sickness under which he is detained;1 thus they generally make somewhat in man or done by man, his ransom, at least to have a share in it. The heart (as was showed before) is prepared for deliverance, by the workings of faith and repentance. But the ransom upon which deliverance is given, is nothing at all wrought in us or by us. Woe to us notwithstanding our prayers and repentance, our reformations and humiliations. To put these in place of a ransom, or to hope for deliverance from the pit upon their account is to pervert the whole Gospel.
So then, 'tis not as popish Expositers tell us, I have found a ransome, that is, I have found the mans good workes, I have found his repentance, I have found his tears, his prayers, his almes. I now see that in him for which I may be propicious to him, and ⟨p. 407⟩deliver him from the sickness under which he is detained;1 thus they generally make somewhat in man or done by man, his ransome, at least to have a share in it. The heart (as was shewed before) is prepared for deliverance, by the workings of faith and repentance. But the ransome upon which deliverance is given, is nothing at all wrought in us or by us. Woe to us notwithstanding our prayers and repentance, our reformations and humiliations. To put these in place of a ransome, or to hope for deliverance from the pit upon their account is to pervert the whole Gospel.
- 1Apparet in homine aliquid aequitatis, ex quo ei miserer• possum, quam quaerebam. Aquin: