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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.
Confusion notes a disorder, and an uncomposednesse of spirit. When a man knows not what to do, or whose counsel to follow. When a man cannot make up his thoughts, or bring them to any issue: When the mind is like a skein of ravelled silk which will neither wind nor draw, then we are in confusion. And this I conceive was it, which Job chiefly intends, when he saith, I am full of confusion.
Confusion notes a disorder, and an uncomposednesse of spirit. When a man knows not what to do, or whose counsel to follow. When a man cannot make up his thoughts, or bring them to any issue: When the minde is like a skain of ravell'd silk which will neither winde nor draw, then we are in confusion. And this I conceive was it, which Job chiefly intends, when he saith, I am full of confusion.
Hence observe,
Great sorrows distract the mind, and bring a man to his wits end.
Great sorrows distract the minde, and bring a man to his wits end.