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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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Fourthly, Iniquities may he called infinite in reference to the will, or the spirit of him that committeth those iniquities: those sins are without bounds, to which man would never set a bound. The natural man would never end sinning, therefore his sins are without end, or infinite. The Prophet (Jer. 13.27.) speaks reprovingly to that people in the name of the Lord; I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields; woe unto thee, O Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean, when shall it once be? As if be had said; O Jerusalem, thou hast no will to be made clean, or thou wouldest never be clean, if thou mightest have thy will; When shall it once be? The time is yet to come when thou wouldest have it to be so; thou hast a mind to pollute thy self still, but no mind to wash thy self from thy pollution. The sins of a person or people are then infinite, or without end, when they discover that they have no mind to leave sinning. A godly mans desires to do good are infinite, and so are the desires of a wicked man to do evil. This Prophet had spoken to Jerusalem in the same language (Chap. 4.14.) How long shall vain thoughts lodge in thee? when wilt thou be weary of these lodgers, when wilt thou bid these guests be gone, whom thou hast thus long bid welcome? The Church of God doth sometimes suffer evil to lodge very long in her, even in the middest of her, as it were, at her very heart; but the world lodgeth or lieth (continually) in evil (1 Joh. 5.19.) and there (as it is the world) it will lie for ever, soaked and steeped in evil. Some give this as one reason to justify the infiniteness or everlastingness of the punishment that is laid upon impenitent sinners in hell. The damned are under endless sufferings, because they would have sinned without end;1 A wicked man would live long, yea he would have no end of his life here, he would live ever, that he might sin ever; therefore the Lord giveth him a life, not such a one as he would have, but such a one as he deserves to have, which is indeed a death for ever. They dye eternally for sin, who would have lived eternally in sin. Take a Scripture or two more to illustrate this way of the infinity of mans sin, (Jer. 8.5.) Why is this people of Jerusalem slidden back, by a perpetual back-sliding;