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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.
Lastly, Note.
When we go about any great work, when we are either to speak or do in any weighty matter, it is good for us to set God before our eyes, to think of and remember our Maker.
When we goe about any great worke, when we are either to speak or doe in any weighty matter, it is good for us to set God before our eyes, to thinke of and remember our Maker.
As in great undertakings we should remember our Maker, waiting for and depending upon his assistance, strength, and blessing, in what we do or go about; so we should remember him to keep our hearts right. And to remember seriously, believingly and spiritually, that God beholds and seeth us in all our ways and works, and that according to the frame of our hearts, and the way that we take in every action, such will the reward and the issue be, cannot but have a mighty command, and an answerable effect upon us. We can hardly do amiss with •od in our eye. And therefore as it is said of a wicked man (Psal: 10.4.) that through the pride of his countenance he will not seek after God, God is not in all his thoughts. So David said of himself (though in that Psalm he speaks chiefly as a type of Christ) and so in proportion or as to sincerity every godly man saith like David, ⟨p. 140⟩Psal: 16.8.) I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, therefore I shall not be moved; that is, as I shall not be utterly overthrown by any evil of trouble, so I shall not be overcome by any evil of temptation: or I shall not be moved either in a way of discouragement by the troubles I meet with, or in a way of enticement by the temptations I meet with. How steadfast, how unmoveable are they in the work of the Lord, how do they keep off from every evil work, who set the Lord always before them, and have him at their right hand! Could we but set the Lord before us, either in his mercies or in his terrors, we should not be moved from doing our duty in whatsoever we are called to do.