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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.
And as men cannot hide themselves from the sight of God, so not, secondly, from the revenging power of God: This followeth the former; for he that would keep out of the sight of another, doth it usually that he may be hid from that danger and evil which he fears that other might bring upon him. Thus it is with the sinner, he hath his hiding places, he would withdraw himself from the revenging power of God, like a malefactor, who is unwilling to appear and come to the Bar before his Judge, but all in vain.
Mere natural or unregenerate men are much hidden from themselves; that is, they see little what themselves are, they know not their own condition, nor upon what terms they stand; even a godly man is much hidden from himself, his life is hid with Christ in God, (Col. 3.3.) his life is not only hidden from the world, but in a great measure from himself: the excellency of his spiritual state surpasseth his present sight: but a wicked man is much more hid from himself, he doth not see the wickedness of his own heart, nor the danger, the desperate danger he is in, he seeth not that he is within a step of the pit, or that there is, as it were, but a wainscot between him and hell fire; he seeth none of these things. Thus a wicked man is hidden from himself, and 'tis his work to prepare darkness and shadows of death to cover his dead works from God. But there is no darkness will serve his purpose, nor shadow of death wherein he may hide himself.
Meer natural or unregenerate men are much hidden from themselves; that is, they see little what themselves are, they know not their own condition, nor upon what terms they stand; even a godly man is much hidden from himself, his life is hid with Christ in God, (Col. 3.3.) his life is not only hidden from the world, but in a great measure from himself: the excellency of his spiritual state surpasseth his present sight: but a wicked man is much more hid from himself, he doth not see the wickedness of his own heart, nor the danger, the desperate danger he is in, he seeth not that he is within a step of the pit, or that there is, as it were, but a wainscot between him and hell fire; he seeth none of these things. Thus a wicked man is hidden from himself, and 'tis his work to prepare darkness and shaddows of death to cover his dead works from God. But there is no darkness will serve his purpose, nor shaddow of death wherein he may hide himself.