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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.
Evil men have no will to consider or understand the good ways of God; yea, their will is against such an understanding.
Evil men have no will to consider or understand the good wayes of God; yea, their will is against such an understanding.
A natural man liketh not to retain God in his knowledge, (Rom. 1.28.) Now, he that doth not like to retain God in his knowledge, or had rather think of any thing then of God, he can never (while such) like to retain the ways of God in his knowledge; he that layeth God out of his thoughts, will much more lay the law of God out of his thoughts. The natural man hath not only a blindness in his mind, which hinders him from discerning the things of God, (they being discernible only by a spiritual eye) but he hath an obstinacy in his Will; or, he hath not only an inability to know, but an enmity against the knowledge of that which is spiritual: He shuts his eyes, and draws a curtain between himself and the light which is ready to dart in upon him; away with this light, saith he; Thus he rebelleth against the light, and as his understanding is dark, so his affections are corrupt. Solomon gives us all this in the expostulations of wisdom with wicked men, (Prov. 1.20, 21, 22.) Wisdom crieth, &c. How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity, and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? That which a man hateth, he hath no will, no mind to know. An impotency or inability unto God, argues a very sad condition, but a rebellion, a frowardness, a wilfulness against it, demonstrates a condition much more sad; not to know because we have no means of knowledge, will make us miserable enough, but not to know because unwilling to receive, or because wilfully set against the means of knowledge, renders any mans condition most miserable. Such were these in the Text, They would not consider any of his ways.