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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.
First, The lust of covetousness, which is an inordinate desire of getting and keeping the riches of this world. The Pharisees all ⟨p. 777⟩the Gospel over are taxed for hypocrites; and when Christ had preached that parable of the unjust Steward, concluding with this sentence, Ye cannot serve God and Mammon; The Evangelist telleth us (Luke 16.14.) The Pharisees also who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him. Covetousness and hypocrisy go together; They who have no true hungrings and thirstings after the things of heaven, are most hungry and thirsty after earthly things. We find Job in the 27th Chapter of this Book (v. 8.) speaking of the hypocrites gain; What is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul; which implieth that the hypocrite is a great aimer at worldly gain.
First, The lust of covetousnesse, which is an inordinate desire of getting and keeping the riches of this world. The Pharisees all ⟨p. 777⟩the Gospel over are taxed for hypocrites; and when Christ had preached that parable of the unjust Steward, concluding with this sentence, Ye cannot serve God and Mammon; The Evangelist telleth us (Luke 16.14.) The Pharisees also who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him. Covetousnesse and hypocrisie goe together; They who have no true hungrings and thirstings after the things of heaven, are most hungry and thirsty after earthly things. We finde Job in the 27th Chapter of this Booke (v. 8.) speaking of the hypocrites gaine; What is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soule; which implyeth that the hypocrite is a great aimer at worldly gaine.
The second predominant lust of the hypocrite is, ambition, or desire of getting to the upper end of the world. Christ chargeth the hypocritical Pharisees with this lust also (Math: 23.6.