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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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From their dependence, in that he saith, Acquaint thy self with him, and be at peace, so shall good come unto thee, These words are brought in by way of inference upon the former, whence
From their dependance, in that he saith, Acquaint thy selfe with him, and be at peace, so shall good come unto thee, These words are brought in by way of inference upon the former, whence
Observe.
That when we are estranged from God, good is estranged from us.
That when wee are estranged from God, good is estranged from us.
God can stop the Influences of all our mercies from us, he can lay an embargo upon all Creatures from bringing any good to us, the ⟨p. 217⟩there be store of treasure and rich Commodity in the place, yet he can bar up all, that no good can come unto us; yea, the Lord in such cases doth often lay a stop upon the spirit of prayer in his own people, and when the heart is stopped that we cannot pray, then usually good is stopped and kept back from coming to us; Prayer is that which fetches in mercy and good things through the love of God in Jesus Christ. Prayer may have a twofold stop. First, prayer may have a stop in the heart; secondly, Prayer which comes forth of the heart may have a stop in heaven, the Lord doth even shut out-prayer sometimes, and when prayer is shut out, no good can get out to us. Prayer is sent upon a message to heaven, and if our messenger be shut out of doors and not admitted in, what answer can we expect by his message. And the Lord as he doth stop such from the receiving of further good, so from the receiving of good by what they have already. We may have that which in the nature of it is good, and yet have no good by it; God can stop the creature in our hands, that it shall not at all give us any Comfort, as well as he can stop any creature-comfort from coming into our hands. Unless the Lord (in one sense) stop the creature, it quickly leaks out all the Comfort which he hath put into it, and proves to us indeed, what sin hath made it, a broken Cistern; And unless the Lord open the creature, the creature cannot give forth that good wch it hath; It will be to us as a Cistern without a vent to pass out the water for our use. There's many a one who hath enough in his hand (take it in any kind) but he enjoys nothing of it, because the Lord locks up the conduit, or the cistern, and then how much good soever there is in it, there's none for him. It is all one to us, whether we have only a broken Cistern for our portion, or a Cistern always locked up; for as the one lets all the water run out, so the other holds all the water in; we are as far from good, if our Cistern hold all, as if it held nothing at all. It is then not only our duty and our holiness to acquaint our selves and be at peace with God, but our wisdom and our interest;