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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.
1To hang or hold down the head, in Scripture noteth humbling and sorrow; when Christ bids his people lift up their heads with joy, because the time of their redemption was drawing nigh, it implied that their heads would hang down with sorrow, wh•le that redemption was further off. The Jewish fasts are described (in part) by this posture of sorrow (Isa. 58.5.) Is it such a fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a bull-rush? Times of fasting are times of mourning, and then (it seems) they used to hang down the head, as a sign of mourning.
- 1M•seri & infoel•ces capite demisso, & in terram dejecto ambulant. S•nct.
Hence observe. That a godly man how upright and holy soever he is, walks humbly with God.
The more holiness any soul hath, the more humility it hath. Humility is a great part of our holiness; much more then is it an argument of holiness. The Pharisee (Luk. 18.) who thought that he was righteous, lifted up his head full high, he would not lose an inch of his commendation, and therefore commends himself. He is his own reporter of what he had done, and who he was; but the poor Publican durst not lift up his eyes to heaven, his spirit hung down as well as his head, yet he was the righteous man, and went home justified rather then the other. It is the scope and design of the Gospel to make and keep us humble. God hath set up the way of saving us by faith, that he might take away boasting, and that no flesh might glory in his sight.