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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 26
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Lastly, From this Consideration of God, let us take a prospect of our selves, what poor short-lived short-breathed Creatures we are. There is no searching out the number of the years of God, but we may quickly search out the number of our own years; our life is but a span long, (Psal. 39.5.) yea our age is nothing before God. Did we consider the eternity of God, what should we judge of our span-long life? we are said to be of yesterday. Some express man thus; He is yesterday; as if he were not to day, but were already past while he is. The best that can be said of him is this; he is but of yesterday, and possibly he shall not have a to morrow: but the Lord is for ever and ever the same.
Lastly, From this Consideration of God, let us take a prospect of our selves, what poor short-lived short-breathed Creatures we are. There is no searching out the number of the years of God, but we may quickly search out the number of our own years; our life is but a span long, (Psal. 39.5.) yea our age is nothing before God. Did we consider the eternity of God, what should we judge of our span-long life? we are said to be of yesterday. Some expresse man thus; He is yesterday; as if he were not to day, but were already past while he is. The best that can be said of him is this; he is but of yesterday, and possibly he shall not have a to morrow: but the Lord is for ever and ever the same.
And though we are short-lived as to this world, though our years may soon be told over, yet let us remember that God hath called us to the participation of eternity; though we have not the eternity of God, which is without beginning, yet we shall have an eternity from God without end; every man is everlasting as to his soul. The godly shall be blessed for ever; and there is an eternal estate of woe and misery to the wicked, the number of the years of their sorrows and sufferings, who live and die without Christ, cannot be searched out. The number of the years of the joy and blessedness, and rest and happiness, and tranquility of those that believe, of those that are faithful, of those that are godly, of those that walk with and fear God, I say the number of the years of their joy and happiness cannot be searched out neither. No man can number or tell how long-lasting the felicity of