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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.
We, indeed, are scarcely to be reckoned among the living, if we have no more but a natural life; what is it to be able to eat and drink, to hear, and see, and speak; unless we have more then this, we deserve not to be numbered or written among the living; we are upon the matter, but dead lumps, and clods of clay. It is the breath of the Almighty that quickens us and superadds ability to do good, that frames, fashions, and fits us for every good word, and work; This is the life of man; when a man is fitted for duty, and service, when he is furnished for employment, to stand God, and his Brethren in some stead while he is in this world, then he lives. The motions, impulses and influences, ⟨p. 173⟩the teachings and guidings of the Spirit of God, are the life of our lives. We can do nothing of our selves, till the Almighty bestows a new life upon us; and as we can do nothing at all in spirituals, till he gives us a new life, so we can do nothing to purpose till the Spirit acts & stirs up that life in us. It is the Spirit who first bestows; Secondly, increaseth; Thirdly, excites our spiritual life, & puts the new creature into motion. All our good thoughts and holy actings, all our uprightness and sincerity, all our strength and ability flow from the Spirit; until the holy Spirit works in us, we sit still; and when the Spirit worketh, we must not sit still; I (saith the Apostle, Rom: 15.18.) will not dare to speak of any of those things, which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient by word, and deed; As if he had said, My own works are not worth the naming, I will not so much as mention any thing that Christ hath not wrought in me by the Spirit; That was a mighty work which he was enabled to do, to make the Gentiles obedient in word, and deed. Christ did not leave him to do it in his own power. The breath of the Almighty enabled him; and so he doth all those that are able and willing, ready for and successful in any such holy work.
We, indeed, are scarcely to be reckoned among the living, if we have no more but a naturall life; what is it to be able to eate and drinke, to heare, and see, and speake; unlesse we have more then this, we deserve not to be numbred or written among the living; we are upon the matter, but dead lumps, and clods of clay. It is the breath of the Almighty that quickens us and superadds ability to doe good, that frames, fashions, and fits us for every good word, and worke; This is the life of man; when a man is fitted for duty, and service, when he is furnished for imployment, to stand God, and his Brethren in some stead while he is in this world, then he lives. The motions, impulses and influences,