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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 a Command comes, if you slight the authority and obligation of it, you turn back from God; when a promise comes, if you do not believe the truth of it, and hope for the good of it, you turn back from God; look what of the mind of God is manifested ⟨p. 705⟩to you in the dispensation of the word, if you do not obedientially close with it, you neglect to close with God himself, and while you turn from it, you turn from God himself. Thus the Apostle speaks concerning back-sliders (2 Pet: 2.20, 21.) If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ they are again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them then the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of God, then after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them; so that, a turning from the Commandment of God, is a turning from God himself; He turneth back from the holy commanding God, who turneth back from the holy commandment of God, and he turneth back from the God of the promise, who turneth back from the promise of God.
When a Command comes, if you slight the authority and obligation of it, you turn back from God; when a promise comes, if you doe not believe the truth of it, and hope for the good of it, you turn back from God; look what of the mind of God is manifested ⟨p. 705⟩to you in the dispensation of the word, if you doe not obedientially close with it, you neglect to close with God himselfe, and while you turn from it, you turn from God himselfe. Thus the Apostle speakes concerning back-sliders (2 Pet: 2.20, 21.) If after they have escaped the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ they are againe entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them then the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have knowne the way of God, then after they have knowne it, to turn from the holy commandement delivered unto them; so that, a turning from the Commandement of God, is a turning from God himselfe; He turneth back from the holy commanding God, who turneth back from the holy commandement of God, and he turneth back from the God of the promise, who turneth back from the promise of God.