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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.
How much soever sinners attempt, yet they cannot hide themselves from God.
Let them study never so long, and dig never so deep, they cannot be hid: Where can a sinner be hid from him who is every where? Or, what thing can be our covering from him, in whose sight all things are open? Then let none think they have made a good market in sinning, when they have hid their sins from the eyes of men; what will it avail to hide your selves from men, when you lie open and manifest to the eye of God? read Psal. 139.12. Amos 3.2. The Apostle saith (1 Tim. 5.24, 25.) some mens sins are open before hand, going before to judgment; (that is, other men quickly see what they are, & can judge what they have done) and some men, they follow after; though they were hidden at the first, yet they are afterward discovered unto men often, as always unto God: As they are not hid from God now, so he will bring them forth at last, in the sight of men: that the Apostle adds in the next verse, Likewise also the good works of some are manifest before hand, and they that are otherwise cannot be hid. The word otherwise may have a two-fold reference; First to the word manifest: As if he had said, though the good works of a man be not presently manifest, yet they cannot be long hid, they shall be opened and revealed. Secondly, The word otherwise may refer to good works, and so it reaches the point fully; that is, those works which are not good, or otherwise then good, cannot be hid, though men labour much to hide them. Sinners, leave off your hiding, leave off your hiding, for you shall not be hid. There is no way for sinners to hide themselves from God; they may hide themselves in God, in the love, in the favour and mercy of God. Thus sinners may hide themselves in God, but from God they cannot be hid. Christ is a hiding place unto his people, and he is so in a double respect; First, from trouble, or in time of trouble; thus David spake (Psal. 32.7