A35389:1621
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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Fourthly, Rather, I conceive that Kings and Counsellors of the earth may be said to build desolate places, when finding places desolate and ruined,1 they, with vast expenses raise up and build stately Fabrics upon them, to get themselves a name. As want and poverty, war and troubles turn a Palace into a desolate place; so riches and plenty, power and peace meeting together in Kings and great men, turn desolate places into Palaces. Kings and Counsellors are of such wealth and power, that they can alter the most desolate and ruinous places, into delicate edifices and stately dwellings.
Fourthly, Rather, I conceive that Kings and Counsellours of the earth may be said to build desolate places, when finding places desolate and ruined,1 they, with vast expences raise up and build stately Fabriques upon them, to get themselves a name. As want and poverty, warre and troubles turne a Pallace into a desolate place; so riches and plenty, power and peace meeting together in Kings and great men, turne desolate places into Pallaces. Kings and Counsellours are of such wealth and power, that they can alter the most desolate and ruinous places, into delicate edifices and stately dwellings.
- 1Inn•it loca vasta & destructa desolataque, quae ipsi extruebant ad nomen sibi comparandum, Drus.
Or lastly, Which doth best suite with the subject of Jobs discourse or curse in this Chapter; He speaking so much of death, by the desolate places, we may understand, Tombs and Sepulchres, places of burial: which Kings and Counsellors build to or for themselves: And so taken, the sense may be given thus, as if Job had said, if I had died, I should have lien in the grave with as much ease and quiet, as those great Princes and Kings of the earth, who build themselves stately monuments to lie in; It would have been as well with me as with any of them, though interred under stately tombs. We know it was an ordinary thing for Kings and great men (especially in ancient times) to prepare for themselves costly monuments while they lived, as houses for their bodies being