A35439:1658
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Henry Overton, 1647
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.
Secondly, Taking both these similitudes in the ordinary notion, as they import the swift passage of Jobs prosperity. Tis questioned, How Job can be excused for speaking thus slightly and undervaluingly of his temporal estate, which was so raised, and so enriched, that he was an eye-sore to the devil;1 Satan envied him, because of his abundance. And doth he now make nothing of it? Was it nothing to be the greatest man in the East? Is he not very unthankful for, or very forgetful of the goodness and bounty of God to him? Should he not rather have said, I have had my days of prosperity, my worldly comforts, and I enjoyed these a long time?
Secondly, Taking both these similitudes in the ordinary notion, as they import the swift passage of Jobs prosperity. Tis questioned, How Job can be excused for speaking thus sleightly and undervaluingly of his temporall estate, which was so raised, and so enriched, that he was an eye-sore to the devil;1 Satan envied him, because of his abundance. And doth he now make nothing of it? Was it nothing to be the greatest man in the East? Is he not very unthankfull for, or very forgetfull of the goodnesse and bounty of God to him? Should he not rather have said, I have had my daies of prosperity, my worldly comforts, and I enjoyed these a long time?
- 1Job usque ad Satanae invidiam, benedictam donium, benedictā familiam habebat.Iob usque ad Satanae invidiam, benedictam donium, benedictā familiam habebat.
I answer, Job speaks not this to obscure the favours of God to him, or ungratefully to pass by his blessings; but he answers the objection of his friends, and maintains the argument he brought against them. His argument was, That the estate of a godly man in this life, is as transitory and as brittle, as the estate of a wicked man, and that therefore there can be no distinction made of men by outward dispensations: To clear which, he saith, Look to my good days, they are past away swiftly, and there's nothing remaining of them. Whence observe,