Job 14

Wash, make yourself clean. But who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? (Job 14:4). Therefore the [reconstructed: Precept] is turned into a promise (Ezekiel 36:25).

Q. How is this sinne propagated? A. It is conveyed from parents to children not by imitation but by generation (Genesis 5:3; Psalms 51:5; Job 14:4; John 3:6). Q. What do you understand by actual sins?

Before this relation whose loss you lament, was born, the time of your enjoyment and separation was unalterably fixed and limited in heaven, by the God of the spirits of all flesh; and although it was a secret to you, while your friend was with you: yet now it is a plain and evi…

3. We may confirm it from well-grounded reason, for it cannot be otherwise; if the root be of such a nature, can the branches be otherwise? Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean thing? No, not one (Job 14:4). When Adam fell the root was corrupted, and the branches cannot…

Job says of such (Job 27:20), in this life, "Terrors take hold of him as waters, and a tempest steals him away in the night." But consider what it is to the saints; Job complains (Job 14:16), "Do you watch over my sin?" (Verse 17) "My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you…

1. We know no grace as common to all and every one of Adam's sons, as nature. 2. Because the Scripture makes nature, wrath, sin, death, common to all (Romans 5:14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21; Romans 3:9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; Job 14:4; Psalm 51:5; Ephesians 2:1, 2, 3; Hebrews…

He speaks expressly of the multitude, because they were a great people; and therefore boasted of it as if they had been invincible. Where he adds that the remnant shall be feeble, he means, there shall be such a change, that there shall be great odds between their former and lat…

The Prophet mentions his tears, as a sign of his repentance, and also of his zeal and affection: not that they obtain grace, or that they can appease God of themselves: but to show that by means hereof, prayers which proceed from affection, are distinguished from those which pro…

To seal, is either to keep safe, or to hide, cover and conceal. The former can have no place here, though the word seem once to be used in that sense, with reference to sin (Job 14:14). But this sense has a perfect inconsistency with what is spoken immediately before, and what f…

Indeede art may help to preserue life till it come to the period in nature, but further to prolong it, is beyond the art and power of man: for man is not lord ouer the spirit to retaine the spirit, Eccles. 8. 8. God has herein appointed his bounds[illegible][illegible]which he c…

The seed lies many days and nights under the clods, before it rise and appear again. Even so man lies down, and rises not again till the heavens be no more (Job 14:12). The days of darkness in the grave are many.

Will he see their graces fainting, their hopes gasping, the new creature panting, the things that are in them ready to die, and will he not regard it? Yes, yes, there is hope of a tree if it be cut down, and the root thereof wax old in the earth, yet by the scent of water it wil…

Every man is in this sense a captive under sin original, in that, will he, nill he, he is born in sin: and the flux of justice so determined, ere the man was born, but the unrenewed Objector is not so a captive. He that was never humbled for sin original, as David confesses it h…

Suppose that the Creator of eyes has once given the faculty of seeing, and that he is not obliged to restore it ever when the man casts it away; and that the man a thousand times winks, and shuts his eyes, and hates to be anointed; and you shall see there is no ground to quarrel…

2. No natural necessity, such as that of the Sun to give light, the fire to cast out heat. Nor 3. No brutish necessity void of a discoursing faculty, such as that of the swallow building her nest, the bee making honey; but we must say there was some eminent, holy and spotless ne…

Death is a separation of Soul and Body, till the Resurrection, 2 Corinthians 5:1. Vve know that if our earthly house of this T[•]bernacle be dissolved. Job 14. 10, 11, 12. Read the words.

We are naturally unclean, defiled; habitually so. For who can bring a clean thing, from that which is unclean (Job 14:4). That which is born of the flesh is flesh (John 3:6).

All our words, speeches, actions, they are all upon record; what means we have enjoyed, what mercies, what opportunities, what calls, and what messages of his love and grace. (Job 14:17) My iniquity is sealed up in a bag. As men's writings or bonds, which they have to show for t…

We read of Gods Book, Revelation 20:12. The books were opened: and his Bag, Job 14:17. My transgression is sealed up in a bag.

And this can be no other than a federal holiness, because those their ancestors were utterly incapable of transmitting any inherent holiness to them, that being the incommunicable prerogative of God. This federal holiness lying still in the root — the covenant with Abraham — wil…

This raises in us some hope of speeding and prevailing with God. The words of the text are emphatical — 'made and fashioned' — God has bestowed much care upon us to make and fashion us, and therefore he will pity us and spare us (Job 14:15): You shall call, and I will answer you…

He will search Jerusalem with candles and visit such as sit upon their lees and say who sees us — you shall find he knows both good and evil and he will work both as a reward to such as deserve. This Job felt by experience (Job 14:16): For now you number my steps, do you not [re…

2. They that never heard of Christ, perish by the Law, and not by the Covenant of Grace of which they never heard, and the Gospel is written in the heart of none. 3. The first Covenant was holy and spiritual, and God should unjustly threaten death upon infants, if they be not gu…

The Leviathan in strength is far above Job, he cannot command him. (Job 14:4) Will he make Berith a covenant with you, will you take him for a servant forever? That is, the Leviathan will not engage as a servant to obey Job as his master.

But it is sure the Lord had not intended to commit heaven and hell any more to a sanctified will, but mutable and slippery in Adam, but to commit all to Christ, to a better covenant, better promises, to a way of free grace not of nature. Yet these men commit the salvation and da…

1. You are all by nature under the guilt and defilement of sin. Sin and uncleanness are hereditary to all Adam's children, and they derive to them in the channel of natural generation; for this we are told (Ephesians 2:3): We are children of wrath, even as others; and he demands…

Sure this agrees with Mr. Daniel Williams's New Doctrine: It was not Gospel-holiness which Paul counted dung, says he. No doubt Job's righteousness was the fruits of faith as well as Paul's, and purified his heart too; who says he knew that his Redeemer lived (Job 14). But yet f…

Now wee beseech you Brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together to him. Then besides it does crosse the Scripture to say that at Christs coming, onely some men shal rise but not all, Job 14, 10, 11, 12. But man dis and wasts away, indeed, man…

He is described with seven eyes to show his omniscience. Thou numberest my steps, Job 14:16. The Hebrew word signifies to take an exact account.

As who should say, you say that the wrath of God is incensed against swearers, and drunkards, and the like; but we see them prosper, and because they do prosper thus, their hearts are set to work wickedness, but however, it is true the Lord does sometimes bear with wicked men; t…

All which do clearly show, that it is a doleful and dreadful condition to be without the pardon and forgiveness of sins. As doleful and dreadful as it is, yet till a man attain this benefit of justification, all his sins do remain in God's sight as fresh and clear, as the very d…

I am not worthy that you should come under my roof, but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. Indeed, we gather from Job's pleading, chapter 14, that humble saints think not themselves only below grace and mercy, but also below the glory of justice and wrath (Job…

2. The surety never injured the creditor by injustice done against the eighth Commandment, but the broken man has failed in this. But I would be resolved what truth can be in those scriptures — 'Who can say I have made my heart clean?' (Proverbs 20:9); 'Who can bring a clean thi…

So Saul (1 Samuel 24:17-18) and (1 Samuel 26:2), but it is not so with a pierced heart, it never leaves braying after the Lord (Psalm 42:1-2) and (Psalm 84:3) and (Psalm 34:5-6). My soul is athirst for God, He will wait, till his day come (Job 14:14). 3. Again, conscience may be…

I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me; I live now, from an inward principle of the Lord Jesus, he lives in me, and he speaks as the Father has given him commandment, (John 14, last verse) And the Son can do nothing of himself, (John 5:19) This is the whole life of any member…

Between the birth and death of a man, how many things merely contingent do occur? How many chances; how many diseases, in their own nature all evitable; and in regard of the event not one of them but to some prove mortal: yet certain it is, that a man's days are determined, the…

The weakness of the members of infants is innocent, and not their souls: they want nothing, but that the members of their bodies are not as yet ready instruments of sin. They are not sinful only by an external denomination, accounted so, because of the imputation of Adam's actua…

Is the guilt of the sin of our first parents imputed, and the same death in sin, and corrupted nature, conveyed to all their posterity, descending from them by ordinary generation? Yes. (Romans 5:12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19; 1 Corinthians 15:21, 22, 45, 49; Psalm 51:5; Genesis 5:3; J…

Q. 6. Do we stand in the same Covenant still, and have we the same power to yield obedience to God? A. No, the (a) Covenant was broken by the sin of Adam, with whom it was made, (b) our nature corrupted, (c) and all power to do good utterly lost. (a) Genesis 3:16, 17, 18; Galati…

Q. 2. Wherein did that hurt us their posterity? A. Divers ways; first, (a) in that we were all guilty of the same breach of covenant with Adam, being all in him; secondly, (b) our souls with his were deprived of that holiness, innocency, and righteousness wherein they were at fi…