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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.
That unless all the ways of God be considered and obeyed, there is not any one of them considered or obeyed.
That unless all the wayes of God be considered and obeyed, there is not any one of them considered or obeyed.
God will not be obeyed by halves; he must have entire obedience, universal obedience, or he owneth none; there is a band or tie between all the commandments of God, and unless you keep them all, you break them all; they that submit not to all, submit to none of his laws. It is not enough for a man to say he is no adulterer, if he be a thief; or to say he is not a murderer, if he bears false witness. He that doth the one in act, doth the other in his heart; nothing hinders him but the absence of a temptation, or of an opportunity, the Law doth not.
God will not be obeyed by halves; he must have entire obedience, universal obedience, or he owneth none; there is a band or tye between all the commandments of God, and unless you keep them all, you break them all; they that submit not to all, submit to none of his laws. It is not enough for a man to say he is no adulterer, if he be a thief; or to say he is not a murderer, if he bears false witness. He that doth the one in act, doth the other in his heart; nothing hinders him but the absence of a temptation, or of an opportunity, the Law doth not.
Further, [they] would not consider any of his ways. Who were they? No fools I dare say, either in their own opinion, or in the opinion of men. Doubtless those mighty men spoken of by Elihu, ⟨p. 713⟩were worldly wise men; they were the mighty, the great men of the world, and they are commonly very considering men, as well as very considerable men; they are knowing men, as well as men much known; they are men of counsel, and sit in counsel to debate difficult matters, and of greatest outward concernment; these things they could consider exactly, and weigh them to a grain; but they would not consider any of God's ways.