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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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A high and reverential esteem of the word of God, works the heart and keeps it close to the obedience of the word.
A high and reverentiall esteeme of the word of God, workes the heart and keepes it close to the obedience of the word.
Job having said before, I have kept the commandments of his mouth, I have kept his ways, and not declined, I have not gone back, now comes to the spring of all this constancy in obedience, I have esteemed the words of his mouth, &c. Love is the spring of action, and esteem is the top of love; we love nothing which we do not esteem, and what we love much we think we can never esteem enough; And what we thus love and esteem, we strive to keep close unto. They that receive the truth, and do not receive the love of it, quickly turn from it to believe a lye, yea God therefore sends them strong delusion to believe a lye, because they received not the love of the truth. As not to love, the truth is a sin, so it is punished with another sin, the love of error. Though we have taken much truth into our understandings, yet unless we take it into our affections also, we cannot hold it long. 'Tis love which holds the heart and the word together. No man willingly obeys that Law which he doth not love. Before David could say, The Law is my meditation all the day, he saith, O how I love thy law (Ps. 119.97.) The hypocrite, who hates instruction, and casts the word of God behind his back; that is, slights and vilifies it to the utmost (for so much to cast behind the back imports, the hypocrite, I say, who thus casts the word of God behind his back) will be talking of the word, and have it much in his mouth, yea he will mouth it so, or be so talkative about it, that God reproves or ⟨p. 413⟩checks him for it (Psal. 50.16.) Unto the wicked saith God, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy mouth. So then, the hypocrite was very busy with his tongue, and he could speak much of that which he loved never a whit. But was the hypocrite a man of his hands also? was he busy in obeying the word which he had cast behind his back? The next words of the Psalm (ver. 18, 19, 20, 21.) tell us what he was busy about, even this, he was breaking the Law as fast as he could; When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentest with him, and hast been partaker with Adulterers, &c. The indictment is large, and upon many heads, yet all true, and is therefore closed with, These things hast thou done (ver. 21.) I the Lord am witness, and so is thy own Conscience.