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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.
God never punisheth any man without cause.
God doth not always show the cause why he punisheth this or that man, but he never punisheth any man without cause; if he striketh, 'tis because men turn back from him, either by a plain apostasy from what they once professed, or by a notorious course of impiety, refusing so much as to own his ways or make profession. God electeth some, and passeth by others without respect to any thing in them; Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated; God hath mercy on whom he will have mercy (Rom: 9.13, 15.) thus, I say, God electeth us without respect to any good in us; but God never striketh or punisheth us, but with respect to some evil in us or done by us.
God doth not alwayes shew the cause why he punisheth this or that man, but he never punisheth any man without cause; if he striketh, 'tis because men turn back from him, either by a plain apostacy from what they once professed, or by a notorious course of impiety, refusing so much as to own his wayes or make profession. God electeth some, and passeth by others without respect to any thing in them; Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated; God hath mercy on whom he will have mercy (Rom: 9.13, 15.) thus, I say, God electeth us without respect to any good in us; but God never striketh or punisheth us, but with respect to some evill in us or done by us.
Secondly, Note.