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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.
When (as Solomon allegorizeth the death of man, Eccl. 12.6, 7.) The silver cord is loosed, and the golden bowl broken, &c. Then shall the dust (that is, the body) return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it; that is, each part of man (when he departeth this world) shall go its proper way, and return to that which is most congenial to it; his body to the earth, from whence it is; his soul to God, of whom it is. God is a Spirit, the creating Spirit, and our created spirits are gathered to God when they are separated from the body; yet remember there is a two-fold gathering or returning of the spirit to God.
First, To abide and be blessed with him for ever; thus the spirits of believers or saints only are gathered to God when they depart out of this world.
Secondly, There is a gathering of the spirit to God, to be judged and disposed of by him, to receive a sentence of life or death from him. And thus the spirit of every man or woman that dieth, is gathered to God, be they good or bad, believers or unbelievers, (Heb. 9.27.) It is appointed for men once to die, but after this the judgement. 'Tis the Statute Law of God, man must die, and the sound of Judgement is at the heels of death. That Text saith, but after this the Judgement. The general day of judgement shall not be till the resurrection of man from the dead; But there is a personal judgement, or a determining of every mans state when he dieth; and for that end every mans spirit is gathered to God to receive his sentence. The spirits of wicked men are gathered to him and condemned, the spirits of the righteous are gathered to him and acquitted: We are come, saith the Apostle (