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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 Elihu saith, There is no darkness, &c. he plainly intimates, that it is the design and business of sinners, to make darkness to hide themselves; it is as much their business to hide themselves when they have done evil, as it is their business to do evil. ⟨p. 670⟩while the workers of iniquity confess in general the eyes of God behold their ways (they deny not in word that God is All-seeing) yet, as they often blear the eye of man, so they are not out of hope to put darkness and raise a mist between themselves and the eye of God; Or if they rise not to this vain thought, that they can hide themselves from God, yet they come to this, that God hideth himself (as not regarding what they do) from them. Hence David affirms of the wicked man, (Psal. 10.11.) He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten, he hideth his face, he will never see it. Many say in their hearts, God seeth them not, while with their tongues they confess he is an all-seeing God. The heart hath a tongue in it as well as the head, and these two tongues seldom speak the same language: While the head-tongue saith, we cannot hide our selves from the sight of God, the heart-tongue of wicked men will say, God will hide himself from us, he will not see▪ But if their heart speak not thus, then as the Prophet saith, (Isa. 29.15.) They dig deep to hide their counsels from God; surely they have a hope to hide their counsels, else they would not dig deep to hide them. Their digging is not proper, but tropical; as men dig deep to hide what they would not have seen in the earth; so they by heir wits, plots, and devices, do their best to hide their counsels from God, and they say who seeth, who knoweth? We, surely, are not seen either by God or man.
When Elihu saith, There is no darkness, &c. he plainly intimates, that it is the designe and business of sinners, to make darkness to hide themselves; it is as much their business to hide themselves when they have done evil, as it is their business to do evil. ⟨p. 670⟩while the workers of iniquity confess in general the eyes of God behold their ways (they deny not in word that God is All-seeing) yet, as they often blear the eye of man, so they are not out of hope to put darkness and raise a mist between themselves and the eye of God; Or if they rise not to this vain thought, that they can hide themselves from God, yet they come to this, that God hideth himself (as not regarding what they do) from them. Hence David affirms of the wicked man, (