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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…
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.
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1655
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Thirdly, A strong assertion of his own innocency, seeing he could speak thus rejoicingly, that God knew all his ways.
Thirdly, A strong assertion of his owne innocency, seing he could speake thus rejoycingly, that God knew all his wayes.
Hence observe; First, The way of man, even his most secret way, or the way within him, is known to God.
Hence observe; First, The way of man, even his most secret way, or the way within him, is knowne to God.
God wraps up himself often in the darkness of secrecy as to man, but man is never in that darkness as to God; the very children of darkness, and the ways of darkness are in the light to him. And as the ways of evil men, and the evil of their ways, so the ways of good men, and the goodness of their ways, are known to God. We need not fear that the good we do or have done (though no eye of man see it) shall be lost in the dark. We scarce know our own ways, and we cannot know our own hearts, but God doth. (Jerem. 17.9.) The heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked, who can know it? No man can know all the ways of his heart; he cannot come to the bottom of his own heart, though he may know the bent of it; but (saith God) I search the heart; much of our heart is a secret to our selves, but to God nothing of it is; he knows our inside fully. As he knows our actions, so the grounds upon which we act, and the ends for which we act, and the heart with which we act; thus God knows the way that every man takes. And thus none but God can know the ways of man. We can trade no farther then upon the borders of mens ways, their outward acts, as for the spirit and principle of them, whence they flow, as for the aims and ends of them, whether they are flowing, with these God alone is intimate. And with these God is more intimate then man can be with that which is wholly outward.