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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.
As it is exceeding sinful to turn back from God, so they who do so, grow every day more and more sinful.
As it is exceeding sinfull to turn back from God, so they who doe so, grow every day more and more sinful.
If a man be once upon a course of back-sliding and Apostatizing from the commands and promises of God, he will find himself worse and worse day after day; for still the further from God any man goeth, the more vain he groweth; and the more doth lust get a hand over him. As unbelief is the root of Apostasy from God, so Apostasy increaseth all that wickedness which is in man. As the cause of all evil, whether of punishment or of sin, is our departure and turning from God; so the very nature of sin is a turning from God; and therefore the more we turn from God, the more sinful and the fuller of sin we are. As the nearer we come to God, the more holy and spiritual and heavenly we are (while we with open face as in a glass (saith the Apostle, 2 Cor: 3.18.) Behold the glory of God (that is, while we draw near to him in his holy ordinances) we are changed into the same image, that is, we become more like to God) so the more we keep at a distance from God, the more unlike we are to him, that is, the more unholy we are. And as persons unconverted, or in an unholy state, are wholly alienated from the life of God, and cannot endure to come near him; so it is in a degree by any of our withdrawings or turnings from him: we are made more unholy, ⟨p. 706⟩and are changed more into the image of those carnal and earthly things which we behold, and with which we over-intimately converse in the time of those withdrawings.
If a man be once upon a course of back-sliding and Apostatizing from the commands and promises of God, he will find himselfe worse and worse day after day; for still the further from God any man goeth, the more vaine he groweth; and the more doth lust get a hand over him. As unbeliefe is the roote of Apostacy from God, so Apostacy encreaseth all that wickednesse which is in man. As the cause of all evill, whether of punishment or of sin, is our departure and turning from God; so the very nature of sin is a turning from God; and therefore the more we turne from God, the more sinfull and the fuller of sin we are. As the neerer we come to God, the more holy and spirituall and heavenly we are (while we with open face as in a glasse (saith the Apostle, 2 Cor: 3.18.) Behold the glory of God (that is, while we draw neere to him in his holy ordinances) we are changed into the same image, that is, we become more like to God) so the more we keep at a distance from God, the more unlike we are to him, that is, the more unholy we are. And as persons unconverted, or in an unholy state, are wholly alienated from the life of God, and cannot endure to come neere him; so it is in a degree by any of our withdrawings or turnings from him: we are made more unholy,