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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 › Verses 5-6
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How sad is the life of a wicked man! indeed of any man on this side the Line of grace, but especially of any very wicked man! He can scarce be said to live, whose life is not preserved by God; a wicked man is always in death, seeing God doth not preserve his life. The Apostle Paul said he was in Deaths often, ⟨p. 193⟩but God had as often preserved his life; but they are in Deaths always, whose life God never preserveth. What preservation of life can he have, who hath not God for his preserver? God in Creation or Propagation giveth us our life as to being; but Preservation gives us our life as to well-being. Can it be well with them that are not under the preservation of God? To be redeemed by Christ would be but a small comfort, unless we were also preserved by him. (Jude 1.) To them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called. If we were only redeemed from death, and not preserved in life, what were our spiritual life to us? So I may say in respect of the life of the body; to be merely created or propagated, what is it, if we are not preserved? 'Tis a high Privilege, when a man can, not only say, he hath received life from God, but his life is preserved by God. That's the first point. He preserveth not the Life of the wicked.
How sad is the life of a wicked man! indeed of any man on this side the Line of grace, but especially of any very wicked man! He can scarce be said to live, whose life is not preferved by God; a wicked man is alwayes in death, seeing God doth not preserve his life. The Apostle Paul said he was in Deaths often, ⟨p. 193⟩but God had as often preserved his life; but they are in Deaths alwayes, whose life God never preserveth. VVhat preservation of life can he have, who hath not God for his preserver? God in Creation or Propagation giveth us our life as to being; but Preservation gives us our life as to well-being. Can it be well with them that are not under the preservation of God? To be redeemed by Christ would be but a small comfort, unless we were also preserved by him. (Jude 1.) To them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called. If we were only redeemed from death, and not preserved in life, what were our spiritual life to us? So I may say in respect of the life of the body; to be meerly created or propagated, what is it, if we are not preserved? 'Tis a high Priviledge, when a man can, not only say, he hath received life from God, but his life is preserved by God. That's the first poynt. He preserveth not the Life of the wicked.