A35535:1780
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.
Secondly, Observe.
A justified person under great afflictions and temptations often looseth the comfortable sight and sense of his own righteousness.
A justified person under great afflictions and temptations often looseth the comfortable sight and sence of his owne righteousness.
And so may look upon himself as an unrighteous person, as having no righteousness, or as being unreconciled & unjustified. For, as many bold sinners & hypocrites presume they have a righteousness when they have none, and boast themselves to be in the number of the justified when they are not. So many an afflicted and tempted soul, who is indeed justified in the sight of God, may be unjustified in his own. Great afflictions have an appearance of divine displeasure, which stands most opposite to justification. As affliction is a kind of darkness, so it often leaves the soul in much darkness. And he that is in the dark is full of fear, he is apt to question his state, whether he hath any thing of God in him or no. For though it be not good for a Christian always to begin to live, he should come to a point, and labour for a certainty; yet some are brought to such a pass that their former evidences and experiences are even dead and lye prostrate, and they constrained to begin a new reckoning about their spiritual estate, or, as it were, to begin again to live.
And so may look upon himselfe as an unrighteous person, as having no righteousnes, or as being unreconciled & unjustified. For, as many bold sinners & hypocrites presume they have a righteousness when they have none, and boast themselves to be in the number of the justified when they are not. So many an afflicted and tempted soule, who is indeed justified in the sight of God, may be unjustified in his owne. Great afflictions have an appearance of divine displeasure, which stands most opposite to justification. As affliction is a kinde of darkness, so it often leaves the soule in much darkness. And he that is in the dark is full of feare, he is apt to question his state, whether he hath any thing of God in him or no. For though it be not good for a Christian alwayes to begin to live, he should come to a poynt, and labour for a certainty; yet some are brought to such a pass that their former evidences and experiences are even dead and lye prostrate, and they constrained to begin a new reckoning about their spirituall estate, or, as it were, to begin againe to live.