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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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The people of God are sometimes over-conceited about the strength and stability of their worldly foundations. Holy David said, In his prosperity, I shall never be moved, Lord by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong, (Psal. 30.6, 7.) And if a godly man may, by the strength of temptation, thus overreckon the strength of an Earthly state, what may they do whose state, yea whose minds are altogether earthly? How often do they judge themselves wise and politic enough to lay for themselves an everlasting foundation in things which cannot last? and that they are so surely bottomed in the favour of men, that they shall never be removed. Babylon thinks her self settled at this day upon such everlasting mountains, ⟨p. 152⟩upon such perpetual hills of power and policy, that certainly her foundation shall never be overflown. Thus she spake her heart out, while she said in her heart (Rev. 18.7.) I sit a Queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Babylon is bottomed & foundation'd upon so many hills, that is, upon so many Interests & advantages of strength, as render her (to her self) impregnable and unremovable. And as this vain confidence bears up the Spirit of that Man of sin, so of very many sinful men, who presume they are upon a sure foundation, when indeed none but the godly mans foundation is sure. (Prov. 10.25.) As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more, but the righteous is an everlasting foundation. The wicked man supposeth himself founded as on a Rock of ages an everlasting strength, such as the righteous man hath in God, or such as God is to a righteous man. (Isaiah 26.3.) Yet as the whirlwind be passeth away but the righteous is an everlasting foundation. We find not the Copulative word, is, expressed in the Hebrew, there 'tis only, but the righteous an Everlasting foundation; So that I should rather read it thus; But the righteous have an everlasting foundation: wicked men seem to have, but the righteous man indeed hath an Everlasting foundation. There is no earthly foundation everlasting; For all earthly things pass away, and are so far from lasting for ever, that they last but (as it were) for a little, for a moment. What then is this everlasting foundation? It is a foundation laid in heavenly things; The foundation which is laid in things above shall abide;