An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…
Author: Joseph Caryl

An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty-seven lectures, delivered at Magnus near London Bridge. By Joseph Caryl, preacher of the Word, and pastor of the congregation there.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty-seven lectures, delivered at Magnus near London Bridge. By Joseph Caryl, preacher of the Word, and pastour of the congregation there.

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: printed by M. Simmons, 1655

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Hence Observe.

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First, A believer hath no opinion of his own strength, or that he can do any thing in his own strength.

First, A beleiver hath no opinion of his owne strength, or that he can doe any thing in his owne strength.

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He trusts no more to his own strength or power, then to his own righteousness or worthiness. As our Justification before God is purely founded in the righteousness of Christ, so all the actings of our sanctification are maintained by the strength of ⟨p. 345⟩Christ. Holy Job spake nothing of his own strength, yea he spake as having no strength of his own. A Godly man knows his own strength is but weakness, and that when he prevails with God it is with a power which he hath from God. Paul useth a form of speech which we may call a divine riddle (2 Cor. 12.10.) When I am weak then I am strong, he predicates or affirms one contrary of another, weakness is contrary to strength, how a weak man should be strong, and then especially strong when he is weak, is hard to conceive by those who are spiritual, and is unconceivable by those who are carnal. This assertion is enough to pose and puzzle nature; He that is weak is strong, or the readiest way to get strength is to be weak. The truth and the Apostle Pauls meaning is plainly this; When I am weak in my own sense and opinion, when I am convinced that I have no power of my own, then I feel power coming in, then Christ strengthens me, and I am strong, then I experience that word, My grace is sufficient for thee. When I find the waters of my own cistern low and failing, then I have a supply from the Spirit. So the Apostle spake, (

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