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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, Transgression is a pollution, or, Sin is a defilement.
If once men step over or besides the line and rule of holiness the Law of God (which to do is transgression) they become unholy. Job supposed himself unclean, if guilty of transgression. Sin is an unclean thing, and it maketh man unclean. This the Church confessed (Isa: 64.6.) We all are as an unclean thing, or person; As if they had said, Time was, when there was a choice people among us, who kept themselves pure from common defilements; But now the contagion and corruption is so epidemical and universal, that the whole body of our people looks like a lump of filthiness and uncleanness. We are over-spread with a loathsome Leprosy from head to foot, from top to toe. Holiness keeps us fair, and righteousness sweet.
If once men step over or besides the line and rule of holinesse the Law of God (which to doe is transgression) they become unholy. Job supposed himselfe uncleane, if guilty of transgression. Sin is an uncleane thing, and it maketh man uncleane. This the Church confessed (Isa: 64.6.) We all are as an unclean thing, or person; As if they had said, Time was, when there was a choice people among us, who kept themselves pure from common defilements; But now the contagion and corruption is so epidemicall and universal, that the whole body of our people lookes like a lump of filthinesse and uncleannesse. We are over-spread with a loathsome Leprosie from head to foote, from top to toe. Holinesse keeps us faire, and righteousnesse sweet.
Secondly, Note.