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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.
Let us therefore ascribe all to his working and quickening; let us set down our several Items of receipt in our account-books, confessing that we have nothing of our own. This gift, that grace, that ability to do, to speak, to suffer, to act, we have received from him. Let the whole Inventory of our souls riches, have Gods name written upon it, and ascribed to his praise alone. And if we thus unclothe our selves, by giving God the glory of all, we shall loose nothing by it, for God will apparel and furnish us, deck and adorn us better every day. The poorer we are in our selves, the richer will he make us. To be thus diminished is the best way to our increase. 'Tis the breath of the Almighty that teacheth us, and if we can but humbly enough, that is, heartily acknowledge it, we shall be taught and learn enough.
Let us therefore ascribe all to his working and quickening; let us set down our severall Items of receit in our account-books, confessing that we have nothing of our own. This gift, that grace, that ability to doe, to speake, to suffer, to act, we have received from him. Let the whole Inventory of our soules riches, have Gods name written upon it, and ascribed to his praise alone. And if we thus uncloath our selves, by giving God the glory of all, we shall loose nothing by it, for God will apparrell and furnish us, deck and adorne us better every day. The poorer we are in our selves, the richer will he make us. To be thus diminish't is the best way to our encrease. 'Tis the breath of the Almighty that teacheth us, and if we can but humbly enough, that is, heattily acknowledge it, we shall be taught and learne enough.
So much of these words as they are a direct assertion. I shall consider them a little in their connection, and reference both to what went before, and to that which follows after; which was the second consideration of this verse at first proposed,