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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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Note, Secondly; Wicked men forfeit, and so are deprived of the good things which God gives to them.
The wicked cannot long, shall not always enjoy the good things of this world. When wicked men abuse the light, especially when they resist the light of nature shining into their consciences, and refuse the light of the Gospel shining in the Scriptures and Ordinances, and resolve to walk on in the darkness of their minds, then from them that light of comfort and prosperity is with-holden; yea, they are often thrust out of the light of the Sun, and out of the light of this present life, into that inner darkness of the grave, and into that outer darkness of hell (Matth. 25.30.) that is, into a darkness furthest remote, or at greatest distance from light, even out of the reach of light. Doth God say to his own people when they sin (Jer. 5.25.) Your sins have with-holden good things from you? Much more then shall the light and all good things, or all the good things of light be with holden from the wicked, whose whole trade and business lies in works of darkness, or in sinning against God. 'Tis bad with man, when God with-holds natural light, the light of the Sun, the good things of this world from him; but 'tis infinitely worse with man, when God with-holds the light of the Gospel, and the light of his countenance, any spiritual light or good from him, and shuts any up in the contrary darkness. From the wicked light is with-holden, And the high arm shall be broken.
The wicked cannot long, shall not alwayes enjoy the good things of this world. When wicked men abuse the light, especially when they resist the light of nature shining into their consciences, and refuse the light of the Gospel shining in the Scriptures and Ordinances, and resolve to walk on in the darkness of their minds, then from them that light of comfort and prosperity is with-holden; yea, they are often thrust out of the light of the Sun, and out of the light of this present life, into that inner darkness of the grave, and into that outer darkness of hell (