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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.
There is an elegance in it, as taken in the other sense,1 for pride or lifting up. See my affliction, it waxeth proud. For as the waves of the sea are called proud waves, when they swell and increase: So an affliction increasing and swelling may be called a proud affliction. Some afflictions like a great sea rise above us, and stand over us; or like a cruel master domineer and insult upon us. Jobs afflictions were proud ones, they came upon him with a kind of authority, as if they would lay him at their very feet. Hence observe.
There is an elegancy in it, as taken in the other sense,1 for pride or lifting up. See my affliction, it waxeth proud. For as the waves of the sea are called proud waves, when they swell and encrease: So an affliction encreasing and swelling may be called a proud affliction. Some afflictions like a great sea rise above us, and stand over us; or like a cruell master domineer and insult upon us. Jobs afflictions were proud ones, they came upon him with a kinde of authority, as if they would lay him at their very feet. Hence observe.
- 1Effert sese afflictio mea Elegā ti autem figura dicit, quod sese efferat. Elationem & superbiam morbo & dolori tribuit, cum totum bominem possidet. Merc.Effert sese afflictio mea Elegā ti autem figura dicit, quod sese efferat. Elationem & superbiam morbo & dolori tribuit, cum totum bominem possidet. Merc.
They who have endured very great afflictions, may yet find their afflictions greatening and increasing.
They who have endured very great afflictions, may yet finde their afflictions greatning and encreasing.