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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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Again, When 'tis said, He cuts them down without time, or before their time, we may observe.
Againe, When 'tis sayd, Hee cuts them downe without time, or before their time, we may observe.
Wicked men are often ripe for Judgement, before they are ripe in years.
Wicked men are often ripe for Judgement, before they are ripe in yeares.
It is said in the 15th of Genesis, 1The Iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full, their sin is not come to a full stature; for as there is a fullness of stature in holiness unto which Saints at last arrive in Christ, so there is a fullness of stature in wickedness to which the Lord suffers sinners to arrive; and as when Saints have attained their full stature in holiness, they are received ⟨p. 144⟩into glory; so when wicked men have attained a full stature in wickedness, they are cut off and turned down to destruction. Though the Lord suffer long, yet he will not always suffer. And as some are but young men, yet old Saints, and have had much Experience of God, and of the ways of grace, though but little of the world (that distinction which the Apostle gives of Saints into little children, young men, and fathers (1 Joh. 2.13, 14.) is not to be understood in reference to natural years, but to standing in grace, or to a growth and progress in holiness) so some wicked men, are but of few years, or but young in reference to their natural age, who yet are old in sin, aged in wickedness they are fathers in abomination, while but children in time, and so are cut down before time: Wicked men are never cut down till they are ripe in sin, but they are often cut down before they are ripe in nature.