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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 13-14
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Their life is with the unclean.
Hypocrites have a great affectation to be numbered among the clean and holy, and possibly they have been, or may be, high in the opinion of men, for holiness, for very Saints; But their life shall be among the Sodomites, or the unclean. It being a shame to express the abomination of that sort of sinners by a word proper to them, the Scripture (by an Euphemism) calls them holy; we translate the Scripture sense, and call them unholy or unclean; Their life is among the unclean, among Sodomites. Thus as the ⟨p. 272⟩death of the hypocrite here is fully expressed in the former words, He shall die with the youth, that is, like those sinful Sodomitish youths, like those youths who live in the heat of abominable lusts, though he seemed to have an heat of holiness; so their life hereafter is fully expressed in these latter words, Their life is with the unclean. This clearly sets forth hypocrites, they are spiritual adulterers, they pretend love to Christ as their husband, but their hearts go a whoring after the world. And therefore as their life was really in this world, though they pretended otherwise, so it shall be visible in the world to come, among the unclean.
Hypocrites have a great affectation to be numbered among the clean and holy, and possibly they have been, or may be, high in the opinion of men, for holiness, for very Sain•s; But their life shall be among the Sodomites, or the unclean. It being a shame to express the abomination of that sort of sinners by a word proper to them, the Scripture (by an Euphemisme) calls them holy; we translate the Scripture sense, and call them unholy or unclean; Their life is among the unclean, among Sod•mites. Thus as the ⟨p. 272⟩death of the hypocrite here is fully expressed in the former words, He shall die with the youth, that is, like those sinful Sodomitish youths, like those youths who live in the heat of abominable lusts, though he seemed to have an heat of holiness; so their life heeafter is fully expressed in these latter words, Their life is with the unclean. This clearly sets forth hypocrites, they are spiritual adulterers, they pretend love to Christ as their husband, but their hearts go a whoting after the world. And therefore as their life was really in this world, though they pretended otherwise, so it shall be visible in the world to come, among the unclean.