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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.
A soul truly humbled is ready to confess to the glory of God, that his punishment and suffering is less then his sin.
A soule truly humbled is ready to confess to the glory of God, that his punishment and suffering is less then his sin.
As a godly man doth not think any sin little, so he doth not think any affliction great compared with his sin. Cain said, My punishment is greater then I can bear; but he did not say, it was greater then his sin. How hot soever the furnace of divine wrath is heated, yet sinners must acknowledge there is sparing mercy in it; and that God might have made it seven times hotter, and therefore hath afflicted them less then their sin. As a godly man is ready to acknowledge his mercy more then he hath deserved (Gen: 32.10.) I (said Jacob) am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and all the truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant, as if he had said; I am less in my good actings then any of thy actings towards me for good have been) so he is ready to say, his greatest afflictions or evils which he suffereth are less then his sins, or then the evils which he hath done.
As a godly man doth not thinke any sin little, so he doth not thinke any affliction great compared with his sin. Cain sayd, My punishment is greater then I can beare; but he did not say, it was greater then his sin. How hot soever the furnace of divine wrath is heated, yet sinners must acknowledge there is sparing mercy in it; and that God might have made it seven times hotter, and therefore hath afflicted them less then their sin. As a godly man is ready to acknowledge his mercy more then he hath deserved (Gen: 32.10.) I (sayd Jacob) am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and all the truth which thou hast shewed unto thy servant, as if he had sayd; I am less in my good actings then any of thy actings towards me for good have been) so he is ready to say, his greatest afflictions or evills which he suffereth are less then his sins, or then the evills which he hath done.