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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 12-15
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Sixthly, How should we, who have light commanded for us, avoid all the works of darkness; yea, We should (as the Apostle exhorts, Rom. 13.12, 13.) cast off the works of darkness, and put on the armour of light; we should walk honestly, as in the day: As in the day which the light of the natural Sun makes, and as in the day, which the light of the mystical Sun, our Lord Jesus Christ, hath made.
Seventhly, Remember, as God hath commanded a morning for us here, so he will command a light, or a morning, a morning light for all our actions hereafter. As God hath made the ⟨p. 125⟩the light, so he will bring all things to light. Many now live in the light of this world, whose works are in the dark as well as theirs are works of darkness. Now as the Lord hath commanded a morning to shine for us to work by, so he will have a morning wherein all our works shall be seen (1 Cor. 4.5.) He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and the manifest the counsels of the heart. Men may dig deep, to hide their counsels from God; but God knows how to bring them and their counsels to the morning, and will cause a light to shine upon them, though they have no light of truth or righteousness in them. God will bring every work into judgement with every secret thing (Eccl. 12.14.) We must all appear (saith the Apostle, 2 Cor. 5.10.) or we must all be manifest; we must appear, and so must our works too. Those works of men shall be light, as to their discovery, which are nothing but darkness, as to their impurity. Those deeds which have no light in them, shall come in the clearest light, and be plainly seen to the bottom, both by Men and Angels. The Lord who hath commanded this mo•ning light for us to do our work in, will command another morning light to judge our works in, and to give us the reward of them. And let all the wicked of the earth, to whom the morning of any day (because they are in danger to be discovered by it) is as the shadow of death (