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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.
First, If we understand it of his estate before and after his troubles compared together, Though thy beginning or the first estate which God gave thee were small, yet thy later end, or the estate which God will give thee, when these storms are over-blown shall wonderfully increase.
First, If we understand it of his estate before and after his troubles compared together, Though thy beginning or the first estate which God gave thee were small, yet thy later end, or the estate which God will give thee, when these storms are over-blown shall wonderfully encrease.
Against this it may be objected, How can the former estate of Job be called small, when as it is said (Chap. 1.) that Job had a very vast estate? We have heard the inventory of his goods, the total sum or appraisement of all, being given in by God himself, That Job was the greatest of all the men in the East. How then can it be said, that his first estate was small? Though thy beginning were small.
Against this it may be objected, How can the former estate of Job be called small, when as it is said (Chap. 1.) that Job had a very vast estate? We have heard the inventory of his goods, the totall summe or apprizement of all, being given in by God himself, That Job was the greatest of all the men in the East. How then can it be said, that his first estate was small? Though thy beginning were small.
I answer, comparatively it may be called small. An exceeding excess of greatness, lessens and littles any other greatness. The Moon is a great light, but the light of the Sun makes that light darkness. That which is glorious hath no glory, by reason of the glory that excelleth; he that is rich or ⟨p. 50⟩