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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.
To follow God in his way, and to propose God as our end, contain ⟨p. 703⟩the sum of all duty. That, God hath made man and given him a being, that, he placed man in the highest form of his visible creation, should draw man after him. We ought to follow God because we are his creatures, because we have our all from him, or because in him we live, and move, and have our being, as the Apostle speaks of mankind in general, even of the heathens (Acts 17.28.) And forasmuch as we are his off-spring (v. 29.) our hearts should spring, or rise up to him in love and thankfulness; as the rivers, because they come from the Sea, go back thither: so we being the off-spring of God, and derived from him, should be always returning to him. This nature tells us; And therefore the Apostle saith (Acts 17.27.) God hath made of one blood all nations of men, that they should seek after him, &c. The light of nature, though dim and dark, shows that a man should feel after God, as a man in the dark doth after his way. And if all men ought to follow God, because they have their natural life and breath from him; much more should believers, who have a new, a spiritual life breathed into them, and bestowed upon them, be always following after God; And the truth is, where true faith, or the life of grace is, that soul cannot live without daily returnings back to and breathings after God, even as mere carnal men, who are alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, are daily turning back from him.
To follow God in his way, and to propose God as our end, containe ⟨p. 703⟩the summe of all duty. That, God hath made man and given him a being, that, he placed man in the highest forme of his visible creation, should draw man after him. We ought to follow God because we are his creatures, because we have our all from him, or because in him we live, and move, and have our being, as the Apostle speakes of mankind in generall, even of the heathens (Acts 17.28.) And forasmuch as we are his off-spring (v. 29.) our hearts should spring, or rise up to him in love and thankfullness; as the rivers, because they come from the Sea, goe back thither: so we being the off-spring of God, and derived from him, should be alwayes returning to him. This nature tells us; And therefore the Apostle saith (