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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 37 › Verses 23-24
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Fourthly, Unless the Lord did a little give stop to the execution of Judgment in this kind, it would neither appear how good, nor how bad some men are. Let some have but a little power in their hands, and the world at will, then you shall see whither they will go, and what they will do. And w•en bad men are suffered to go on unpunished, and to be a punishment to others, then it appears more fully how good some are, and that in a twofold respect. First, because they refrain from evil, though they see that they also possibly might do it (impune) and not suffer in this world. Secondly, because •hey hold fast both thei• profession and practise of Godliness, how much soever they suffer for it in this world from evil men.
Fourthly, Unless the Lord did a little give stop to the execution of Judgment in this kind, it would neither appear how good, nor how bad some men are. Let some have but a little power in their hands, and the world at will, then you shall see whither they will go, and what they will do. And w•en bad men are suffered to go on unpunished, and to be a punishment to others, then it appears more fully how good some are, and that in a twofold respect. First, because they refraine from evill, though they see that they also possibly might do it (impune) and not suffer in this world. Secondly, because •hey hold fast both thei• profession and practise of Godliness, how much soever they suffer for it in this world from evill men.
Fifthly, God is executing Judgments upon wicked men, while he seems to spare them from judgment (Pro. 1.32.) The prosperity of fools slayeth them. S•me think a wicked m•n is mightily favoured when he is in prosperity, no, that prosperity is his destruction, and destruction is Judgment in perfection. The table of a wicked man is made his snare, his full table fatens his heart, which is the sorest of all judgments. To be unsensible is worse than any punishment of sense; to be hardened or heartened in doing