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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of the Book of Job being the substance of XXXV lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed for L. Fawne, 1656
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Chapters o… › Chapter 5 › Verses 13-16
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This Original word for [poor] varies from the former, though 1the persons and their estate be the same: That word noted them full of desire, and this (which is the cause of it) empty of comforts: Properly it signifies one, that is exhausted or drawn dry; Poor persons are exhausted persons, exhausted of their strength, exhausted of their estates, exhausted of friends and credit in the world. It is a metaphor taken from rivers, ponds or pools, that are drawn dry, when we would take the fish, or take away the defence which they give to forts or Cities. Isa. 19. 6. And they shall turn the rivers far away, and the Brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: which also enlightens that text, Isa. 33. 21. Where the righteous Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers. A river that shall not be drawn dry or sluiced out (as Euphrates was by Cyrus when he took Babylon) but shall sill its banks and shores perpetually; that is, the Lord will be there a perpetual defence: A river that shall never be impoverished, but shall keep a full stock and treasure of streams and waters.
This Originall word for [poore] varies from the former, though 1the persons and their estate be the same: That word noted them full of desire, and this (which is the cause of it) empty of comforts: Properly it signifies one, that is exhausted or drawn dry; Poore persons are exhausted persons, exhausted of their strength, exhausted of their estates, exhausted of friends and credit in the world. It is a metaphor taken from rivers, ponds or pooles, that are drawn dry, when we would take the fish, or take away the defence which they give to forts or Cities. Isa. 19. 6. And they shall turne the rivers farre away, and the Brookes of defence shall be emptied and dried up: which also enlightens that text, Isa. 33. 21. Where the righteous Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers. A river that shall not be drawn dry or sluced out (as Euphrates was by Cyrus when he took Babylon) but shall sill its bankes and shoares perpetually; that is, the Lord will be there a perpetual defence: A river that shall never be impoverish'd, but shall keep a full stock and treasure of streames and waters.