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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
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 ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 7
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Here all the Angels of God joined in this thanksgiving at first, yet soon, very soon after, a great part of the Angels rebelled against God, and became Apostates; for presently upon the Creation ⟨p. 89⟩of man, which was the sixth day, there was a Devil, a Tempter, who overthrew man; yet here we have all the Angels in a holy Quire. Hypocrites are forward to join in acts of praise, in acts of prayer, in acts of hearing, who yet in time of temptation fall away, and so fall into as bad a condition as the fallen Angels; of whom the Apostle Jude saith (vers. 6.) that not having kept their first estate (or principality) but leaving their own habitation (appointed them of God) he hath reserved them in everlasting chains (both of Providence and Justice) under darkness, unto the Judgement of the Great Day.
Here all the Angels of God joyned in this thanksgiving at first, yet soon, very soon after, a great part of the Angels rebelled against God, and became Apostates; for presently upon the Creation ⟨p. 89⟩of man, which was the sixth day, there was a Devil, a Tempter, who overthrew man; yet here we have all the Angels in a holy Quire. Hypocrites are forward to joyn in acts of praise, in acts of prayer, in acts of hearing, who yet in time of temptation fall away, and so fall into as bad a condition as the fallen Angels; of whom the Apostle Jude saith (vers. 6.) that not having kept their first estate (or principality) but leaving their own habitation (appointed them of God) he hath reserved them in everlasting chains (both of Providence and Justice) under darkness, unto the Judgement of the Great Day.
Fourthly, Observe; The great business of Angels, and that which they are most bent to, is to praise God (Psal. 103.20. Psal. 148.2.