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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.
The word is very general; he doth not say this, that, or 'tother work, but the work, which is as much as an universal, every work of a man, his good works, and his bad works, his open works, and his secret works, his great and lesser works, there is not the least grain of a mans works, that shall be unanswered or un-returned to him; and, when the Text saith the work of a man &c. we are not to take works in an exclusive sense, either first, as to words, as if God would render to man his works, but not his words; mans words will come to an account as well as his works; they must be answered for whether good or bad. (Math. 12.36, 37.) For every idle word, that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment; for by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned; that is, it shall be rendered to thee according to thy words, or as thy words have been, so it shall be with thee. Nor secondly, are we to take the works of a man, exclusively, or in opposition to his thoughts; as if God would render to man what he hath acted outwardly, but not what he hath acted inwardly, or would pass by his thoughts. We must give an account of our thoughts, which are the spring of our works as well as of our words, which are the publishers and proclaimers of them. God shall bring every work (saith Solomon, Eccl. 12.14.) to judgment, and every secret thing, the most secret whispers of the tongue, and the most secret plottings, contrivings, devisings, designings, yea the simple and single thinkings of the heart. These are not only the moulds and principles of every work, but every one of these is a work, and all of them the whole work of the inner man; whose work, or what is wrought there, is ⟨p. 562⟩chiefly, as well as only, under the inspection and eye of God.
The word is very generall; he doth not say this, that, or 'tother worke, but the work, which is as much as an universall, every work of a man, his good works, and his bad works, his open works, and his secret works, his great and lesser works, there is not the least graine of a mans works, that shall be unanswered or un-returned to him; and, when the Text saith the work of a man &c. we are not to take works in an exclusive sence, either first, as to words, as if God would render to man his works, but not his words; mans words will come to an account as well as his works; they must be answered for whether good or bad. (