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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.
I answer, First, There are some who profusedly, plainly, with a bold and bare face hate the right; there is in all natural men a seed of this hatred, The wisdom of the flesh is enmity against God; and surely, if it be enmity against God, it must needs be enmity against all that is good; now as there is a seed of that enmity in every man's nature, so there will be the workings and fruits of that enmity in many mens lives.
I answer, First, There are some who profusedly, plainly, with a bold and bare face hate the right; there is in all natural men a seed of this hatred, The wisdome of the flesh is enmity against God; and surely, if it be enmity against God, it must needs be enmity against all that is good; now as there is a seed of that enmity in every man's nature, so there will be the workings and fruits of that enmity in many mens lives.
Secondly I answer, He may be said to hate right that doth not approve right, that doth not love and delight in it; not to love, not to delight in that which is right, is to hate the right. As he that doth not love God, is a hater of God; the second Commandment speaks thus, I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy to thousands of ⟨p. 612⟩them that love me, and keep my Commandments. Hating of God, and loving of God, divide the whole world; they that do not love God, hate him; there is no middle of participation between these two, between the love and hatred of God: so there is a hatred of Justice or Right in him who loves it not; though a man do not make profession against it, yet if he hath not an affection to it, he will at last be found amongst that most hateful company, the haters of righteousness: not to hate evil, is to love it, and not to love good, is to hate it in God's account. Many stand as neuters in the days of this world, but in that great day of the end of the world, there will be no neuters seen: all shall stand in two parts, either among the sheep or goats; and among all the sheep there will not be one found, who hath not been a lover of goodness and righteousness; nor one among all the goats, who hath not been (in the judgement and esteem of God) a hater of them.