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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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Thou sayest thus; How doth God know? I tell thee God doth know; And thou hast an argument upon thy back, if thou hast ⟨p. 131⟩none in thy heart to prove it, thy sense or feeling may teach thee, if thy reason or understanding do not, and by thy suffering thou mayest see that God seeth what thou hast been doing. This great truth, That God is omniscient, or knows all, may easily be known, and ought to be believed by all. When the Lord had made the world in six days (Gen. 1.31.) He saw all that he had made; All was in view at once, he had a Prospect of the whole Creation in his eye. And as all his own Creatures, so all our Creatures are seen by God; he seeth all that himself hath made, and he seeth all that we have made, or are making day by day. (Gen. 6.5.) God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every thought of the Imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil Continually, or every day. The Lord saw, that is, the Lord knew fully (infinitely more fully then we know those things which we see) every Imagination or figment of the thoughts of mans heart. The figment of our thoughts, is what the mind fashioneth or maketh up within it self by thinking: corrupt nature keeps a constant mint of evil imaginations in the head, as it hath a sink of filthy affections in the heart. The mind of man hath a formative faculty in it. And the same word which the Holy Ghost useth to signify the work of God in making man, (Gen. 2.7.) The Lord God formed man out of the dust of the earth, or dust out of the earth (the same word, I say) is used in the Noun (Gen. 6.5.) to signify, the imagination of man, because that is always shaping moulding or forming one sort of thoughts or other, &, naturally, none but ugly evil thoughts. These are the creatures which man (as fallen) is the maker of; and he maketh (as I may say) infinite creatures, he is forming them continually in his imagination, that's the shop wherein there's a daily Creation (such as it is) of monstrous wickednesses, till God by his new Creation changeth the frame and nature of it. Now (I say) as God seeth his own creatures; so he seeth all our Creatures, though we make them in the shop of our darkest imaginations. And much more doth he see all the Creatures which we make without, that is, all our bodily and external actions. (