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A35535	An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1661 (1661)	Wing C774; ESTC R36275	783,217	917

of man what it is and how shewed him 384 385. Many good men see not their owne uprightness 385. What the uprightness of our state is and what the uprightness of our life shewed 386 387. Caution to Ministers about shewing man his uprightness 389 W Waiting on man in three cases necessary 35. Waiting imports three things 74 Walking with God what 539 706 707. Walking as man what 539 Warnings God gratiously gives them once and againe 270. We have no ground to expect frequent warnings 271. No man knoweth how oft he shall be warned 272. Warnings by words being neglected blowes follow 339. The punishments of others should be our warnings 697. 698 Water to drinke iniquity like water what it signifieth 536 Wayes of a man twofold 657. Wayes of God twofold 707. Wayes of God not regarded by wicked men 713 Not to consider the wayes of God a great sin 713 Wicked men they who doe like the wicked shall be dealt with by God as wicked men 693. The same word signifies to be wicked to condemne and trouble why 726. A good man may in some things and at some times act and speake like a wicked man 855. Every man naturally is wicked yea a man of wickedness 855 Will man hath not only a weakness but a wound in his will 278. The will of man is naturally bent against the wayes of God 709 710. Will more then the action alone 544. The will of a naturall man is weake against the doing of evill and for the doing of good 827. Two proper acts of the will 834. Man would have all things goe according to his will 835 That man would have his will shewed in foure things 836. The sinfullness of desiring things to be after our mind or will shewed by a threefold evill spring of it 837. The absurdity of desiring to have our will 838. God will not give man his will 839 Wise a man wise in his owne eyes hard to be reduced 4. Greatness of birth or place can make no man wise 63. None are so wise but they may learne more wisdome 490 497. Nothing is worth the learning but makes us truely wise 490. A wise man how distinguished from a man of knowledge 495. The wise will heare as well as speake 496 497 Wisdome twofold 47. Wisdome most probably to be found in old men 47 48. Wisdome or understanding is the gift of God 53. Man apt to be proud of that which he calls wisdome 85. What that wisdome was which our first parents sought 86 Two reasons why there is such a temptation in wisdome to pride 86 87 True wisdome consists chiefly in two things 489 490. Spirituall wisdome is the best lesson 491. Wisdome is the savory knowledge of things 500. The beginning of true wisdome 607 Wish how we should be and doe according to the wish of others 181 Witness to beare false witness against our selves very sinfull 523 Word of God is fitted for all sorts and sizes of men 497. They who turne from the word of God turne from God himselfe 704. The not minding of the word of God is the cause of all wickedness 710 711 Words strayning of words of two sorts 16. Words well meant may sometimes justly fall under an ill interpretation 27. Words should be well weighed before they be uttered 76 Words acceptable to be sought what they are 77. Our words should be well ordered like an Army c. 95 96. An idle word what 145. Hard words as grievous as blowes 192 Not to offend in word a great poynt of perfection 208. Words of good men often worse then their meanings 529 547. Inconsiderate words render us obnoxious to severest censures 548. Words multiplyed seldome without sin 862 863 Worke of a man and his way how they differ 563 Workes in what latitude to be take● when it is sayd God will render them to us 561. Every man shall have according to his workes 563 Two objections against it answered 564 565. Severall inferences from it 566 567. Workes of God to speake unduely of them is to speak against God himselfe 861 862 Workes of God to be deeply considered 463. Workes of God perfect or he will perfect his worke 466 Workes of God called his wayes 708. The plainest workes of God have many wonders in them 716 Workers of iniquity who 668 World a twofold disposition of it 577 Wound without transgression how to be understood 526. The wounds which God makes cannot be healed by any medicines but his owne 527 Wrath of God makes quick dispatch with sinners 137. Wrath of God appeares highly against man when he saith I will not pardon 814 Y Yoke they that will not beare the yoke of Christ shall never have any benefit by his crosse 623 Young men should shew respect to their elders 37. Young men apt to run into mistakes 43. What young men say or hold is not to be despised because of their youth 68. Old men when and how to be preferred before young 69 Youthfull lusts which 44 Z Zeale should kindle for the defence of truth 113 A TABLE OF Those Scriptures which are occasionally cleered and briefly illustrated in the fore-going EXPOSITIONS The First Number directs to the Chapter The Second to the Verse the Third to the Page of the BOOKE Chap. Vers Page Genesis 3. 17. 475. 4. 10. 721. 4. 13. 804. 6. 3. 468 271. 6. 5. 658. 6. 8. 392. 6. 12 13. 350 328. 6. 17. 595. 18. 25. 571 559 554. 20. 5 6. 298. 25. 21. 421. 33. 10. 729. 39. 22. 463. 42. 16. 88. 44. 17. 554. Exodus 4. 10 11. 57. 7. 23. 588. 12. 23. 362. 16. 21. 181. 23. 20. 371. 25. 10 17 21. 406. 25. 30. 435. 32. 23. 299. 34. 6 7. 810. Leviticus 10. 1 2 3. 862. 19. 32. 37. Numbers 14. 34. 215. 20. 12. 258. 20. 24. 594. 23. 21. 451 218. 25. 4. 695. Deuteronomy 1. 16 17. 123. 21. 15 16 17. 612. 25. 1. 30. 29. 19. 829. 32. 4. 557. Judges 2. 17. 707. I Samuel 2. 3. 660. 2. 9. 732. 3. 1. 379. 7. 2. 741. 10. 6 9 11 12. 55 56. 12. 3. 769. 15. 23. 859. 15. 29. 851. 26. 8. 267. 28. 19. 160. II Samuel 2. 22. 730. 3. 36. 251. 5. 20 21. 135. 12. 13. 396. 12. 31. 330. 23. 3. 614. I Kings 11. 9. 273. 17. 12. 270. 21. 13. 627. 622. II Kings 6. 10. 271. 10. 16. 84. 16. 3. 330. II Chronicles 16. 8 9. 661 657. 16. 9. 664. 32. 25 26. 309. 34. 28. 594. Esther 4. 14. 117. Job 5. 6. 91. 7. 11. 327. 11. 12. 86. 37. 11. 395 38. 36 53. Psalmes 1. 1. 537 1. 2. 714. 2. 12. 134. 4. 6. 727. 4. 8. 749 5. 3. 178. 5. 5. 462. 7. 5. 329. 7. 8. 19. 8. 2. 61. 9. 18. 724. 9. 16. 696. 10. 4 5. 706. 10. 11. 670. 10. 14. 717. 10. 3. 84. 10. 5. 601. 11. 4. 657. 13. 1. 728. 14. 4. 538. 16. 8. 140. 16. 10. 328. 16. 11. 727. 17. 14. 364. 18.

scelus est veritatem palliare Merc But it is a farre greater sin to commend the sins of others or to commend others in their sin And we may take the measure of this sin by the punishment of it When we heare the Lord threatning flatterers with suddaine destruction doth it not proclaime to all the world that their sin is full of provocation The Lord beares long with many sorts of sinners but not with sinners of this sort My maker would soone take me away Whence note Secondly God can make quicke dispatch with sinners As the grace of God towards sinners Nescit tarda molimina spiritus sancti gratia so his wrath needs no long time in preparations When we designe great actions we must take time to fit our selves Princes must have time to set out an Army or a Navy when they would either defend themselves against or revenge themselves upon their enemies But God can presently proceed to action yea to execution He that made all with a word speaking can destroy the wicked as soone as speake the word he can doe it in the twinkling of an eye with the turning of a hand My Maker would soone take me away Thirdly Because Elihu being about to speake in that great cause sets God before him and God in his judgements in case he should speake or doe amisse Note Thirdly They that doe or speake evill have reason to expect evill at the hand of God If I should flatter saith Elihu my Maker would soone take me away I have reason to feare he will not that God takes away every sinner as soone as he sins God rarely useth Martiall Law or executes men upon the place we should live and walke more by sence then by faith if he should doe so but any sinner may expect it God I say is very patient and long-suffering he doth not often take sinners away either in the act or immediately after the act of sin Yet there is no sinner but hath cause to feare lest as soone as he hath done any evill God should make him feele evill and instantly take him away David prayeth Psal 28.3 Draw me not away with the wicked and with the workers of iniquity There is a two-fold drawing away with the workers of iniquity First to doe as they doe that is wickedly Thus many are drawne away with the workers of iniquity and 't is a good and most necessary part of prayer to beg that God would not thus draw us away with the workers of iniquity that is that he would not suffer the workers of iniquity to draw us away into their lewd and sinfull courses Secondly there is a drawing away to punishment and execution In that sence I conceive David prayed Lord draw me not away with the workers of iniquity who are taken away by some sudden stroake of judgement though I may have provoked thee yet let not forth thy wrath upon me as thou sometimes doest upon the workers of iniquity doe not draw me out as cattell out of the pasture where they have been fed and fatted for the slaughter Every worker of iniquity is in danger of present death and may looke that God will be a swift witness against him though most are reprieved yet no man is sure of that Againe In that Elihu represents God to himselfe ready to take him away in case of flattery and prevarication in that cause Note Fourthly It is good for us to over-awe our soules with the remembrance of the judgements and terrours of God 'T is profitable sometimes to converse with the threatnings as well as with the promises 't is profitable to remember what God is able to do against us as well as to remember what God is able to do for us Even believers should goe into the dreadfull treasuries of wrath into the thunders lightnings of divine displeasure as well as into the delightfull treasuries of mercy of love compassion it is good for a good man to thinke God may take me away as well as to thinke God will save and deliver me we need even these meditations of God to keepe downe our corruptions and to fright our lusts Though it be the more Gospel way to make use of love yet the Gospel it selfe teacheth us to make use of wrath 2 Cor 5.11 Knowing the terrour of the Lord we perswade men Lastly Note When we goe about any great worke when we are either to speak or doe in any weighty matter it is good for us to set God before our eyes to thinke of and remember our Maker As in great undertakings we should remember our Maker waiting for and depending upon his assistance strength and blessing in what we doe or goe about so we should remember him to keepe our hearts right And to remember seriously believingly and spiritually that God beholds and seeth us in all our wayes and workes and that according to the frame of our hearts and the way that we take in every action such will the reward and the issue be cannot but have a mighty command and an answerable effect upon us We can hardly doe amisse with ●od in our eye And therefore as it is sayd of a wicked man Psal 10.4 that through the pride of his countenance he will not seeke after God God is not in all his thoughts So David said of himselfe though in that Psalme he speakes chiefely as a type of Christ and so in proportion or as to sincerity every godly man saith like David Psal 16.8 I have set the Lord alwayes before me because he is at my right hand therefore I shall not be moved that is as I shall not be utterly overthrowne by any evill of trouble so I shall not be overcome by any evill of temptation or I shall not be moved either in a way of discouragement by the troubles I meete with or in a way of enticement by the temptations I meete with How stedfast how unmoveable are they in the worke of the Lord how doe they keepe off from every evill worke who set the Lord alwayes before them and have him at their right hand Could we but set the Lord before us either in his mercies or in his terrors we should not be moved from doing our duty in whatsoever we are called to doe Thus farre Elihu hath drawne out his speech in a way of preface preparing himselfe for his great undertaking with Job He hath now fully shewed the grounds why he undertooke to deale with him and what method he would use in that undertaking In the next Chapter and so forward to the end of the 37th we have what he sayd and how he managed the whole matter JOB Chap. 33. Vers 1 2 3. Wherefore Job I pray thee heare my speeches and hearken to all my words Behold now I have opened my mouth my tongue hath spoken in my mouth My words shall be of the uprightnesse of my heart and my lips shall utter knowledge clearely ELihu having spent the whole

in a pretence made long prayers As it is a very great point of ungodliness prophaneness indeed to say What profit is there in serving the Lord So it is gross hypocrisie to take up Religion meerly for profit there is profit even worldly profit in Religion Godliness is profitable for all things 1 Tim. 4.8 and hath the promise of this life as well as of that to come but wo to those that take it up designing profit and the filling either of their purses or their bellies Our Saviours Divine Spirit quickly discovered this carnal spirit in his followers John 6.26 Ye seek me not because ye saw the miracles but because ye did eat of the loaves and were filled Judas followed Christ but the motive of it was in the bag John 12.6 The zeal of Demetrius to his Idol Diana was kindled by as pure a fire as the zeal of these hypocrites to Jesus Christ Acts 19.24 By this we get our living They know nothing of the life of Religion who are religious only that they may live If profit be the Loadstone of our profession our profession will never profit us for what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world by a profession of the name of Christ if he lose his own soul Sathan charged Job with this gross hypocrisie chap. 1.9 Doth Job fear God for nought as if he had said Job findes 't is no lean business to be religious and therefore no wonder if he be found so religious Who would not do and be as much as he in Religion to have his fields full of Cattel and his folds full of Sheep and his house full of Riches He knows well enough which side his bread is buttered on what makes for his profit all the account he makes of Religion is that he perceives by his books and the inventory of his goods that it turns every year to a good account Jobs slander is the just charge of many they use Religion but as a stalking horse to catch worldly riches Fourthly The grosse hypocrite often designes that which is higher in the esteeme and more taking upon the spirits of many then worldly riches even worldly power or to get very high if not uppermost in the world 'T is no new thing for men to make religion a stayre to ascend the highest roomes among men or a stirrup to get into the saddle of honour and when they have got high enough then downe with the stayres or 't is no matter for the stirrup by which they ascended Jehu was very zealous in the cause of God and for reformation but his designe was for a kingdome or his owne exaltation 2 Kings 10.16 he made a noyse of much piety Come see my zeale for the Lord yet all was but a piece of State-hypocrisie His care in destroying Ahabs house and Baals Priests according to the command of God was but to pave the way to the throne The same way Absolom was taking to his fathers Crowne he told the people he was troubled that they were no better governed that they had no quicker dispatch in their suites and businesses he told his father he had made a vow and desired the liberty of his absence from Court that he might goe and performe it all he pretended was righteousnesse and religion yet he intended only to get an advan●●ge to make his party strong that so he might thrust his fa her out of the throne and get up himselfe He seemed a Saint whil● he meant to be a Traytor The History of the Church reports of Julia● the Apostate Socrates Hist Ecclesiast lib 3. c. 1. that when his predecessor being a Christian held the Empire he highly pretended the profession of Christ and read a Gospel-Lecture in the Church of Nichomedia yet while he was in shew a Christian and in hope an Emperour he was in heart a pagan He saw the times served him not to act the pagan openly and therefore he subtlely betooke himselfe to his disguise and personated the Christian even in the mortified way of a monasticke life 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tandem simulationem professionis christianae penitus deposuit Socrat ubi supra that he might smooth his way to the Empire To which having once attained he presently put off his disguise and to his utmost disgraced and opposed the name and faith of Christ which he had formerly owned and professed Thus I have touch't upon the foure grand designes of the Grosse hypocrite First praise among all men Secondly revenge upon some men Thirdly the gaine of worldly riches Fourthly the attainment of power dominion and Greatness in the world These are as the foure wheeles of Satans chariot wherein he hurrieth thousands to the land of darkness while they would be esteemed children of the light Or some one of these is as the primum mobile first mover of which Philosophers speake in their doctrine of the heavens carrying many with a rapt and violent motion in the spheare of religion while they have in the Interim a secret undiscerned natural motion of their owne directly opposite to this by which they hope at last to steale on faire and softly to their wished periods Having thus farre shewed the close purposes of the designing hypocrite who is so hatefull to God and hurtfull to man I shall a little discover and unmaske his hypocrisie by shewing how we may know him how we may looke through these vayles and see his ugly face Designing hypocrites are usually discovered these foure wayes First By their affectation to be seene and taken notice of they that will have praise and glory with men must needs affect to be seene of men for no glory comes to man from men but by what falls under the eye and observation of man Job saith of murderers Chap 24.13 They are of those that rebell against the light they know not the wayes thereof nor abide in the paths thereof The murderer cannot endure the light either natural or moral because that tells who he is or what he hath been about The contrary in one sense is true of the hypocrite he loveth the light and will doe nothing willingly but as he may be taken notice of and seene of men as for those acts or exercises of religion which are private retirements between God and his owne soule he is a great stranger to them he cannot delight in them but any thing that may fall under publick observation he can be forward enough in Christ Math. 6.5 gives us this plaine discovery of the hypocricall Pharisees They love to pray standing in the Synagogues and in the corners of the streets that they may be seene of men This was so much in Jehu's heart that he could not but blab it out with his tongue 2 Kings 10. Come see my zeale A false fire kindled his zeale else he had not made such a blaze It was insincere rotten-hearted Saul that sayd 1 Sam 15.13 Come thou blessed of the Lord I