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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:138p. 37

Hence note; 'Tis our duty not only to take notice of our sins, but of the greatness and degree of our sins.

Hence note; 'Tis our duty not onely to take notice of our sinnes, but of the greatnesse and degree of our sinnes.

:139p. 37–38

Eliphaz doth well to put Job upon that enquiry, Is not thy wickedness Great? Though he did ill so groundlessly to suspect, much more to conclude that it was so. When Moses (Exod. 32.31.) interceded for the people, after they had made the golden Calf, he makes report of their sin to God in the fullest aggravation of it; O, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them Gods of Gold; he doth not only confess in their behalf, that they had sinned, but they had sinned greatly, They have (saith he) sinned a sin, that's more then to do a thing that is sinful, and which is yet more, They have sinned a great sin, and which is most of all, they (though they have been taught and have professed that God made them) have made them gods of Gold. David makes this the ground why he did beg pardon of his sin (Psal. 25.11.) Pardon mine iniquity for it is great. As we are to look upon the greatness of sin, to humble our souls with godly sorrow, so we are to look upon the greatness of sin when we sue to the Lord for pardon; pardon my sin for it is great; our very sensibleness that our sin is great, is a prevailing argument with God to pardon it; and our insensibleness that our sins are great, gives the greatest stop to the pardon of them. And as every sin hath the more need of pardon, by how much the greater it is, so God will have the more glory in pardoning it, by how much the greater it is. The great wounds, and sicknesses of the Patient have the more need of curing, and if a Physician cure a great wound, or sickness, he hath the more honour by the cure. Now that we may take the truest measure of our sins, we must look upon them, first in their nature and kind, of what sort they are, and to what they relate in their commission; secondly, in their circumstances, when, how, and in ⟨p. 38⟩

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