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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This word, trodden, referred both to a sinful and a suffering way, notes the frequency of their going or being in those ⟨p. 139⟩ways. And as it is referred to their sinful way alone, it notes first their boldness in sinning; secondly, their resolvedness to sin: A trodden way, is such a way as a man hath often gone, and in which he is not afraid to go. Hast thou marked the old way.
This word, trodden, referred both to a sinfull and a suffering way, notes the frequency of their going or being in those ⟨p. 139⟩wayes. And as it is referred to their sinfull way alone, it notes first their boldnesse in sinning; secondly, their resolvednesse to sin: A trodden way, is such a way as a man hath often gone, and in which he is not afraid to goe. Hast thou marked the old way.
Hence note. First, The way of Sin and Error is an old way.
The Devil sinned from the beginning, and men have sinned from their beginning, not only have there been sinnings, but great sinnings from the beginning; the old way is the way of sin, though the oldest way be not. There was holiness before there was sin, and truth before there was Error; So that the way of sin is the old way, but not the oldest way. God, all whose ways are holy, was from everlasting. The Angels who have been holy as long as they have been, were from the beginning. And the first beginning of man in his conversation, was, no doubt, like his constitution, holy. He quickly went out of the way, but surely his first step was not out of the way, he went right before he went wrong, and stood before he fell. Again, if you take the way for the way of punishment.