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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.
As our holiness is expressed by walking with God, so our sinfulness by walking with wicked men. To walk with God is all the commendation of Enoch, who was so holy on earth that God took him up to Heaven, (Gen. 5.22.) He had this testimony (faith the Apostle, Heb. 11.15.) before his translation, that he pleased God. To walk with God, is to please God, or to give up our selves wholly to God. Can two walk together except they be agreed? is the Prophets question, (Amos 3.3.) They who walk together are supposed to have one will, as they are seen to have one way. What God willeth they will, and what God willeth not, they will not who walk with him. To walk with wicked men implieth an agreement with them, and a conformity to them, as being of their fraternity, company and livery. They that walk with wicked men, declare their familiarity with them, or that their mind and manners are the same. The Apostle tells the Corinthians (1 Cor. 3.2.) Whereas there is among you envying, strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk as men, that is, as men in their natural and sinful condition walk. Though ye are spiritual in your state, yet ye act as carnal men. Now, as it is sinful for a godly man to walk as a man, or according to man, (as our Margin hath it, for he should walk as God) so it is much more sinful to walk with wicked men, or according to the worst of men. Thus the Apostle describes the conversation of the Ephesians before conversion. (Eph. 22.) And you hath he quickened who were dead in sins and trespasses, in which sometime ye walked according to the course of this World. That is, according to the tide, current and stream of the times and places wherein ye lived.1 Man naturally doth not walk where he ought to go, but where he seeth the most go. He is led by the worst of examples (such are the examples of the most or of the many) rather then by the best of rules. It is our duty, and it should be our delight to walk with those who delight in the Law and in the way of God. David saith of his deceitful friend, but real enemy. (Psal. 55.14.) We walked unto the house of God in company. As if he had said, time was when he and I were as if he had been I, both of us but one, in that one thing necessary,