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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 4 › Verses 19-21
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Lastly, Consider the form of speaking in this Scripture, How much less on them, who dwell in houses of clay? He speaks of the whole man, as dwelling in a house of clay; Now we know that a body cannot properly be said to dwell in a body, the house doth not dwell in a house; yet he speaks, as of a complete person dwelling in a house of clay, which yet is to be understood of one part of the person, The soul; that dwells in a house of clay, that is, it acts and officiates in a body composed of clay. Hence observe, seeing ⟨p. 151⟩the whole man cometh under the notion of the soul;
Lastly, Consider the forme of speaking in this Scripture, How much lesse on them, who dwell in houses of clay? He speakes of the whole man, as dwelling in a house of clay; Now we know that a body cannot properly be said to dwell in abody, the house doth not dwell in a house; yet he speakes, as of a compleat person dwelling in a house of clay, which yet is to be understood of one part of the person, The soule; that dwels in a house of clay, that is, it acts and officiates in a body composed of clay. Hence observe, seeing ⟨p. 151⟩the whole man commeth under the notion of the soule;
That the soul of man is The man, The soul goes away with the 1name of the whole person: The soul is not the man in a natural consideration, (as some have philosophized, asserting that man is nothing but a soul clothed with a body) for, man is man by the union of soul and body, and the perfection of man as man, consists in that union; but the soul is the man in a moral consideration, because it is the more noble and excellent part of man: and it is usual to denominate the whole from that part which is more excellent. The body is but as the Cabinet, the soul is the Jewell; the body is but as the sheath or the scabbard, the soul is as the knife or the sword; You know when a man buyeth a sword, he buys a scabbard too, or when he buys a knife, he buys the sheath too, yet he saith, this knife cost me so much, or I gave so much for this sword he makes no mention of the scabbard or of the sheath; now the body is the sheath or scabbard of the soul (