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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First, I answer; Repentance properly taken notes a change of the mind; But in an improper or allusive sense, there may be repentance without any the least change of the mind. When God is said to repent (as in those texts alleged) we are to understand it improperly, or only in allusion unto man. The Scripture in many other things speaks of God, either as condescending to mans understanding, or as alluding to the common actions of man. God doth not act as man doth, yet by such expressions as hold out, what and how man acts, we may come the more easily to understand what God doth. As in the present instance, when man repents, he doth these two things.

First, I answer; Repentance properly taken notes a change of the minde; But in an improper or allusive sence, there may be repentance without any the least change of the minde. When God is sayd to repent (as in those texts alledged) we are to understand it improperly, or onely in allusion unto man. The Scripture in many other things speakes of God, eyther as condescending to mans understanding, or as alluding to the common actions of man. God doth not act as man doth, yet by such expressions as hold out, what and how man acts, we may come the more easily to understand what God doth. As in the present instance, when man repents, he doth these two things.

:1389p. 426

First, He ceaseth to do, what he began to do, he breaks the thread of his former motions.

First, He ceaseth to doe, what he began to doe, he breakes the thread of his former motions.

:1390p. 426–427

Secondly, When man repents that he hath done, or made such a thing, he is ready to deface and destroy that which he hath made or done: When man repents that he hath set up such or such a thing, he removes and takes it down. Thus God is said to repent, not because his mind is changed, but because (as a man that repenteth) he ceaseth to do what he did, or he destroyeth that

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