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An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of…
An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Job delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus near the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practical observations upon the three first chapters of the book of Iob delivered in XXI lectures at Magnus neare the bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by G. Miller for Henry Overton, 1643
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That man is borne to sorrow. He sees sorrow the first thing he sees. Sorrow is his first acquaintance. The connection is very close, Because it shut not up the doors of the womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. Eliphaz tells us, (chap. 5.7.) That man is borne unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. He is born to it, the expression implies that trouble & sorrow take hold of us, or we enter upon and take hold of trouble, as soon as ever we enter upon the world, we are borne to them, trouble and sorrow are a mans inheritance; as an heir is borne to his land or estate. Man hath a right to those troubles, they are his birth-right, and all his birth-right by nature; and as soon as ever he is borne, he takes possession of sorrow, or sorrow possesses him. Many a man is borne to riches and a great estate, but he stayeth a great while for the possession of them; man ⟨p. 393⟩is borne to trouble, and he enters upon that as soon as ever he enters the world; sorrow is not his inheritance in reversion, but in possession; Even as the sparks fly upward, that explains it to be so, as the sons of the Coal, (so the Hebrew) that is, sparks as soon as ever they are borne out of the coal fly upward, and are presently ascending; so is man tending unto trouble. Few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, saith Jacob, (Gen. 47.9.) How few soever they have been, they have been evil: if his life had been but one day, that had been an evil day. If his life had not been lengthened to the least number of days, yet his evils had multiplied to a number: in few hours we have many sorrows.
That man is borne to sorrow. He sees sorrow the first thing he sees. Sorrow is his first acquaintance. The connection is very close, Because it shut not up the doores of the wombe, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. Eliphaz tells us, (chap. 5.7.) That man is borne unto trouble, as the sparkes flie upward. He is born to it, the expression implies that trouble & sorrow take hold of us, or we enter upon and take hold of trouble, assoone as ever we enter upon the world, we are borne to them, trouble and sorrow are a mans inheritance; as an heyre is borne to his land or estate. Man hath a right to those troubles, they are his birth-right, and all his birth-right by nature; and assoone as ever he is borne, he takes possession of sorrow, or sorrow possesses him. Many a man is borne to riches and a great estate, but he stayeth a great while for the possession of them; man