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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 35 › Verses 4-8
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Fourthly, Some sins are not only in themselves a contempt of God, but they are committed in contempt of God. When men sin presumptuously, and with a high hand; when they sin with a command shining in their eye, with a threat sounding in their ear, they even send a defiance to Heaven, and bid God do his worst: And is this nothing against God? nothing unto God? One of the Ancients writing at large of two Cities,1 calleth one of them, The earthly and unholy City, made by the love of our selves, even to the loathing and contempt of God. (Love to our selves, rising up to the contempt of God, doth all the mischief in the world) The other City he calleth holy and heavenly, and that (saith he) is built by the love of God, or when we love God even to a loathing and contempt of our selves, and of all our own concernments, interests and advantages. When a man comes to love God with a loathing of himself, then he is indeed a builder of the holy City: And when sinners act with an inordinate love to themselves, they at once cast contempt upon God, and build that bad City; and is this nothing to God?
Fourthly, Some sins are not only in themselves a contempt of God, but they are committed in contempt of God. When men sin presumptuously, and with a high hand; when they sin with a command shining in their eye, with a threat sounding in their ear, they even send a defiance to Heaven, and bid God do his worst: And is this nothing against God? nothing unto God? One of the Ancients writing at large of two Cityes,1 calleth one of them, The earthly and unholy City, made by the love of our selves, even to the loathing and contempt of God. (Love to our selves, rising up to the contempt of God, doth all the mischief in the world) The other City he calleth holy and heavenly, and that (saith he) is built by the love of God, or when we love God even to a loathing and contempt of our selves, and of all our own concernments, interests and advantages. When a man comes to love God with a loathing of himself, then he is indeed a builder of the holy City: And when sinners act with an inordinate love to themselves, they at once cast contempt upon God, and build that bad City; and is this nothing to God?
- 1Augustinus, l. 14. De Civitate Dei. cap. 28.