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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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How foolish are they who ask and desire that as a blessing, which God the only wise God threatens as the soarest curse. (Jer. 6.8.) Be instructed O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee, lest I make thee a Land desolate, not inhabited: Utter desolation is the consequent, yea the effect of the Lords departure from a Land; and when he ceaseth in regard of his favourable presence to inhabit a Land, either none shall inhabit it, or none shall have a comfortable habitation in it. The Lord threatens this departure as the last and soarest, or as the sum of all his judgements, and wicked men desire this, as if to be without God were the chief or sum of their enjoyments. See another instance of this folly; among all the threatenings of God against sinful men, this is one of the greatest, that he will take away his Gospel, and the light of his Word from them, yet this a ⟨p. 161⟩wicked man desireth, let the Gospel go, let the light of the word go; He wisheth it gone, 'tis but a trouble to him, he is sick of it, it is a death to him. The best of good things is refused, and the worst of evils chosen by those that are evil. As their understanding is so blinded and distempered, that they call evil good, and good evil, that they put darkness for light, and light for darkness, that they put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter (Isa. 5.20.) So their will and affections are so perverted, that they choose & embrace darkness for light, evil for good, and that which is most bitter, for that which is sweeter then the honey and the honey-comb.
How foolish are they who aske and desire that as a blessing, which God the onely wise God threatens as the soarest curse. (Jer. 6.8.) Be instructed O Jerusalem, lest my soule depart from thee, lest I make thee a Land desolate, not inhabited: Utter desolation is the consequent, yea the effect of the Lords departure from a Land; and when he ceaseth in regard of his favourable presence to inhabit a Land, eyther none shall inhabit it, or none shall have a comfortable habitation in it. The Lord threatens this departure as the last and soarest, or as the summe of all his judgements, and wicked men desire this, as if to be without God were the chiefe or summe of their enjoyments. See another instance of this folly; among all the threatenings of God against sinfull men, this is one of the greatest, that he will take away his Gospel, and the light of his Word from them, yet this a