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…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…
Author: Joseph Caryl

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.

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: printed by M. Simmons, 1655

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Hence observe; First, That as man by nature is a stranger from God, so every act of sin, especially great and continued actings of sin breed a further estrangement from God.

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We act the part of nature every time we sin, and that in a proportion brings us back in some degree to what we were by nature, strangers unto God. A godly man (who hath had acquaintance with God) sinning puts back his acquaintance, & a distance grows between God and him. Believers after great sins and follies committed, are not forward to come into the presence of God, they have a kind of listlessness to duty, a listlessness to prayer, and to all acts of communion with God. And God himself appears as if he did not much care for them when they come, they have not those Communications from God which he usually vouchsafeth his, God doth not give them the meeting as formerly; they do not ⟨p. 207⟩find the Lord presently, though they seek him earnestly. So that both ways there is an Estrangement; sin separates between God and the soul, not only judicially but naturally. If God should not depart from sinners, or command them to depart from him, yet they would of themselves depart from him. It is not possible for one, who willingly lives in sin, to live willingly in the presence of God; For as to be cast out of the presence of God, is the extremest punishment of wicked men, so also is their being in his presence. The same thing is both their desire and their punishment. They are punished with a departure from God, and they desire nothing more then to be out of his presence.

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