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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of the book of Job being the substance of thirty-five lectures / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1664
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-fifth, Th… › Chapter 36 › Verse 21
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Sixthly, Affliction is our conformity to Christ. If you choose affliction, you choose that which makes you look like Christ; for he was a man of sorrows in this world, he was not in the ruff and jollity, in the power and pomp of this world, but low, and of no reputation, acquainted with grief all his days. If then you choose affliction rather than sin, you choose conformity to Christ; but choosing iniquity rather than affliction, you take up the utmost disformity to Christ, who knew no sin, n•r was any guile found in his mouth. He took all our afflictions upon him, but he would not touch our sin, as a doer of it, only as (in our stead) a sufferer for it.
Sixthly, Affliction is our conformity to Christ. If you chuse affliction, you chuse that which makes you look like Christ; for he was a man of sorrows in this world, he was not in the ruff and jollity, in the power and pomp of this world, but low, and of no reputation, acquainted with grief all his dayes. If then you chuse affliction rather than sin, you chuse conformity to Christ; but chusing iniquity rather than affliction, you take up the utmost disformity to Christ, who knew no sin, n•r was any guile found in his mouth. He took all our afflictions upon him, but he would not touch our sin, as a doer of it, only as (in our stead) a sufferer for it.
How great is the good of affliction! But is there any good at all in sin? Upon all these considerations the Apostle saith, When God, the Father of spirits, afflicts his sons and daughters, he doth it for their profit, that they may be partakers of his holiness (Heb. 12.10, 11.) The Lord afflicts us for our profit, but he doth not say I have let you sin for your profit: For though the Lord is able to, and often doth, bring good out of sin, yet not instrumentally, but occasionally. Therefore the Scripture attributes no profit to sin, but speaking of sin, it saith, What fruit have ye of those things whereof ye are now ashamed (