Job 15

The very Heathens by the light of nature saw this; Heriocles the philosopher said, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, it is grafted in us by nature to sin: men roll sin as honey under their tongue. — They drink iniquity as water (Job 15:16). Like a dropsical person, that thirsts for dri…

5. Pray for sanctification. Job propounds a question, Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean (Job 15:14)? God can do it.

Second, a natural man cannot perfectly keep all God's commandments, because he is so interlarded with sin. He is born in sin (Psalm 51:5; Job 15:16) — he drinks iniquity as water. All the imagination of his thoughts are evil, and only evil (Genesis 6:5).

(Nehemiah 9:26.) They have cast your laws behind their backs. 2. Sin is a contumacious affront to God, 'it's a walking contrary to him (Leviticus 26:40), the Hebrew word for sin, Pashang, signifies rebellion; sin flies in the face of God (Job 15:25). He stretches out his hand ag…

Luke 18:1. God I thank you that I am not as other men are, I fast, I give tithes: Here was a triple crown of pride the Pharisee wore; righteousness though it raises the name, it depresses the heart (Job 15:10). If I am righteous, I will not lift up my head.

It is a great pity that the ordinances of God, as to their quickening and comforting effects, should be like those human ordinances the Apostle speaks of, that perish in the using. O then, let me say to you as Job 15:11 says: 'Do the consolations of God seem small to you?' Look…

Thus Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner gave themselves over to wickedness and strange sins; and then justice quickly trussed them up for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. That man is even ripe for hell, that is become a contriver of…

This habitual holiness of Christ was inconceivably above that of the angels. He who charges his angels with folly, Job 4:18, who puts no trust in his saints — and in whose sight the heavens are not clean, Job 15:15 — always embraces Christ in his bosom and is always well pleased…

Our hearts are filled with distempers, when once we cease to be frequent with God in private. It is said of Job (Job 15:4), "You restrain prayer before God." That passage is notable (Psalm 14:4): "They eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord."

He is one that is born in sin: (Psalm 51:5) Behold I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me; and things natural, are not easily altered. And as he is born in sin, so he is greedy of sin; (Job 15:16) He drinks in iniquity like water; it notes a vehement prop…

Who has hardened himself against him, and prospered? Such as live in the open breach of Gods Commandments harden their Hearts against God; they raise a War against Heaven, Job 15:25. He strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.

Are there not many prayerless Families in this City and Nation? Job 15:4. You casteth off fear, you restrainest prayer.

The same is true of any other transporting object. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity (Ecclesiastes 1:2), and (Job 15:31): Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity; for vanity shall be his recompense. (Romans 8:20): The creature is made subject to vanity.

To begin with the most notorious. 1. Some desire sin with a passionate earnestness (Job 15:16). He drinks iniquity like water.

Why are [reconstructed: you] so disquieted, O my soul? They look to the grievance, not to the comfort, as that which is of no use: they aggravate the grievance, and lessen the love of God; Are the consolations of God so small with you? (Job 15:11). It is spoken to them who have…

When Hezekiah was arrested with the sentence of death in the mouth of the Prophet, here was his comfort and support, O Lord, you know that I have walked before you with a perfect heart. And (Job 15:16), Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him. 2. Before the world a man will b…

1. These comforts though not absolutely necessary to salvation, yet conduce much to the well-being of a Christian, and therefore not to be despised. It is as oil to the wheels (Job 15:11). If neglected and not sought after with earnest diligence, they are despised, which cannot…

Secondly, That usually he does protect his people against the plots of the proud, and brings the mischief they intend to others upon their own heads. Job 15:35. They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepares deceit. But to keep the notion of the text.

But because ingenuity is perished from off the earth, and men are generally more apt to be wrought upon by arguments drawn from fear than love, therefore the Scripture propounds to us the consideration of the dreadful justice of God arrayed in all the terrible circumstances of i…

In the great day of recompense, these slothful ones will learn to pray and beg, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us, but they shall have nothing, namely, of that which they beg, no door opened to let them into the House of God, where is bread enough. I remember I said, that sins of o…

The angels he has charged with folly (Job 4:18). The heavens are not clean in his sight (Job 15:15). Man in his best (now) estate is altogether vanity (Psalm 39:5).

If once Satan get the heart fearless, it becomes careless and thoughtless, as I may so speak. Eliphaz couples them together (Job 15:14): "You cast off fear, and restrain prayer; you have taken off the activity of fear: fear has fallen from his authority, and then it follows you…

These comforts are of a divine infusion, and they are twofold: either here or hereafter. First, comforts here. They are called the consolations of God (Job 15:11) — that is, great comforts, such as none but God can give; they exceed all other comforts as far as heaven does earth…

8. Pray for heart-purity. Job propounds the question, who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean (Job 15:14)? God can do it; out of an impure heart he can produce grace; make that prayer of David (Psalm 51:10).

Young men of desire (Ezekiel 23:23) do easily dazzle our eyes, and when we are not renewed in the spirit of our mind, unsanctified hearts are weak in apprehending, and more weak in discerning of things. 5. So must there be a deadening of the husband to the wife (Job 19:17), to s…

He that can search in any measure by a spiritual light into his own heart and soul, will find, God be merciful to me a sinner, a better plea than any he can be furnished withall from any worth of his own. What is man that he should be clean, and he that is born of a woman that h…

Like the Thraci[illegible]ns, who when it thunders, gather together in a body, and shoot their Arrows against Heaven. The sinners in Brittain do even send God a challenge, Job 15. 25. They strengthen themselves against the Almighty; they run upon him even on his neck, on the thi…

People sin with greediness, Ephesians 4.19. They drink iniquity like water, Job 15.16. They are grown Rampant in wickedness, having laid aside the veil of modesty, Zephaniah 3.5.

And it is Job's praise, (Job 1:22) in all this Job sinned not, nor charged God with folly. 3. It is a strong faith in this woman, that, in a manner, conquers Omnipotence by believing; indeed, Satan, winds, fire from heaven, wife, Sabeans, indeed, apprehended wrath cannot prevail…

Fourthly, a man then remembers God, when he prizes God, and fellowship with him, for many times we are straitened in our own bowels, because we prize him not at his worth. Are the consolations of God a light thing to you? (Job 15:11). They should countervail all our discourageme…