An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
Author: Joseph Caryl

An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666

[16], 1036, [26] p. · 442k words · Wing C777 · ESTC R19353

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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 39 › Verse 5-8

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Thirdly, To be freed from the old legal ceremonies, is the privilege of all believers under the Gospel; and 'tis such a privilege as the Apostle exhorted the Galatians, and us with them, ⟨p. 332⟩to maintain with all our might (Gal. 5.1.) Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage; that is, with the bondage of the ceremonial Law, from which Christ hath made us free (Gal. 4.26.) Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all; free, First, from the slavery of sin; free, Secondly, from the curse of the Law; free, Thirdly, from the yoke of legal ceremonies. All believers are made thus free by Christ, but Christ hath not made so much as one believer free from service. Christ makes us free to serve, not free from serving. To be be free to serve, is infinitely better than to be free from service; nothing is more ingenuous, nothing shows a more noble spirit in man, than to be free to serve, as all are, being once freed from spiritual or sin-slavery (Rom. 6.19.) As ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now yield your selves servants to righteousness unto holiness; for (as it follows) when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness, or (as it is in the margin) free to righteousness; not free to do righteousness, but free not to do it. Righteousness had then no command (yielded to) no power (submitted to) over you; whereas over a gracious heart, righteousness hath the greatest command. A godly man is at the beck of God, in all the ways of righteousness: and, as he is free to serve Masters, so he is free to be subject to Magistrates, or higher powers, according to that rule of the Apostle (Rom. 13.1.) And that all in their places may be mindful of this duty, they are upon all occasions to be put in mind of it, as the same Apostle directed Titus in his Epistle to him (Chap. 3.1.) The Lord having spoken of the freedom of the Ass, proceeds to described his dwelling.

Thirdly, To be freed from the old legal ceremonies, is the priviledge of all believers under the Gospel; and 'tis such a priviledge as the Apostle exhorted the Galatians, and us with them,

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Joseph Caryl, An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,… (London, 1666), ch. 39, verse 5-8, p. 333. EEBO-TCP A35538.

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Joseph Caryl 1602–1673

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London

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M. and S. Simmons

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1666

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[16], 1036, [26] p.

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Wing C777 · ESTC R19353

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EEBO-TCP A35538

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