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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
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Fourthly, (which is yet worse) when the Lord hides his face from a people, he doth not only with-hold his counsels, but gives them up to their own counsels, & that is, to their own hearts lusts, (Ps. 81.12.) Israel would none of me (saith God) they would not hearken ⟨p. 745⟩to my voice: What then? So I gave them up to their own hearts lusts, and they walked in their own counsels: and that was to give them up to a spirit of division, to a spirit of discontent, to a spirit of envy and jealousy, to a spirit of ambition, of self-seeking and emulation, and so to a spirit of distraction and confusion, and so to ruin and destruction: such and no better is the issue, when God gives a people up to their own counsels; then they soon become a very Chaos, and run themselves into a ruinous heap. As good have no counsel from man, as none but man's.
Fourthly, (which is yet worse) when the Lord hides his face from a people, he doth not only with-hold his counsels, but gives them up to their own counsels, & that is, to their own hearts lusts, (Ps. 81.12.) Israel would none of me (saith God) they would not harken ⟨p. 745⟩to my voice: What then? So I gave them up to their own hearts lusts, and they walked in their own counsels: and that was to give them up to a spirit of division, to a spirit of discontent, to a spirit of envie and jealousie, to a spirit of ambition, of self-seeking and emulation, and so to a spirit of distraction and confusion, and so to ruine and destruction: such and no better is the issue, when God gives a people up to their own counsels; then they soon become a very Chaos, and run themselves into a ruinous heap. As good have no counsel from man, as none but man's.
Fifthly, When God hides his face from a Nation, he is ready to declare his displeasure, and the sorest testimonies of his fierce anger, formally, against them; God looks upon a sinfully sinning people as a burden upon his heart; he is pressed, and even oppressed with them, he loathes them, his stomach turns at the thought of them, (