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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.
He goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, or he associates and puts himself into the society of the workers of iniquity. Elihu doth not say, he dwelleth among the workers of iniquity; The best man in the world may dwell among bad men; Let dwelt in Sodom. We must go out of the world, if we will not be among the wicked; the world is every where full of the workers of iniquity. But (saith he) he goeth in company with them. Which intimates the activeness of his spirit with them; yea the election of his spirit, or that he chose their company. Though a good man may be in the company of the wicked, yet he doth not choose their company; He is not of their body of their society or gang. A wicked man doth not content himself to be among the ordinary sort of sinners, he is for, and best likes the worst of sinners, workers of iniquity. All are sinners naturally, but some are sinners artificially; they study sin, they contrive and plot mischief; They devise iniquity upon their beds, saith one Scripture; They weave the spiders web, 1saith another. Here's artificial sinning. The Greeks call such, sin-workers, and crafts-men in evil. I have had occasion to speak of these from other passages of this Book. Here Elihu to heighten the charge against Job, saith, He goeth in company with ⟨p. 539⟩(such or chooseth such kind of company) the workers of iniquity; And walketh with wicked men.
He goeth in company with the workers of iniquity, or he associates and puts himselfe into the society of the workers of iniquity. Elihu doth not say, he dwelleth among the workers of iniquity; The best man in the world may dwell among bad men; Let dwelt in Sodome. We must goe out of the world, if we will not be among the wicked; the world is every where full of the workers of iniquity. But (saith he) he goeth in company with them. Which intimates the activenes of his spirit with them; yea the election of his spirit, or that he chose their company. Though a good man may be in the company of the wicked, yet he doth not choose their company; He is not of their body of their society or gang. A wicked man doth not content himselfe to be among the ordinary sort of sinners, he is for, and best likes the worst of sinners, workers of iniquity. All are sinners naturally, but some are sinners artificially; they study sin, they contrive and plot mischiefe; They devise iniquity upon their beds, saith one Scripture; They weave the spiders webb,