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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.
Thirdly, observe, To be accounted wicked, is a sore affliction.
It is an affliction to have an ill name, though we deserve it not, and to be accounted wicked, though we are not; it is I grant far better to be censured, then to be flattered. It is very ill when others count us, and worst of all when we account our selves better then we are, yet it is no small evil to be accounted worse then we are, especially to be accounted evil, when we are good. A wound in our honour, is not a wound to be slighted. It was no small part of the sufferings of Christ, that he was numbered with the transgressors in his death, and called Beelzebub, a friend of Publicans and sinners, while he lived.
It is an affliction to have an ill name, though we deserve it not, and to be accounted wicked, though we are not; it is I grant far better to be censured, then to be flattered. It is very ill when others count us, and worst of all when we account our selves better then we are, yet it is no small evil to be accounted worse then we are, especially to be accounted evil, when we are good. A wound in our honour, is not a wound to be sleighted. It was no small part of the sufferings of Christ, that he was numbred with the transgressours in his death, and called Beelzebub, a friend of Publicans and sinners, while he lived.
Fourthly, observe from this, Do not condemn me.