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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.
Secondly, He wisheth that he had died speedily: seeing he could not have that (supposed) happiness not to be born into the world, his next request is, that he might not have stayed long in the world; he would not have appeared as a man, no nor as a child, but that birth and burial might have been contiguous, not knowing the distance of a day, vers. 18, 19. O that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! I should have been as though I had not been, I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Secondly, He wisheth that he had died speedily: seeing he could not have that (supposed) happinesse not to be born into the world, his next request is, that he might not have staied long in the world; he would not have appeared as a man, no nor as a childe, but that birth and buriall might have been contiguous, not knowing the distance of a day, vers. 18, 19. O that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! I should have been as though I had not been, I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Thirdly, He showeth, that however he had been disappointed of both those votes, yet he could not live long; As if he had said, Though I have found much trouble in the world, yet I shall not much trouble the world, the time of my departure is at hand, I have lived most of my days already, and all my days are not many, vers. 20. Are not my days few?
Thirdly, He sheweth, that however he had been disappointed of both those votes, yet he could not live long; As if he had said, Though I have found much trouble in the world, yet I shall not much trouble the world, the time of my departure is at hand, I have lived most of my daies already, and all my daies are not many, vers. 20. Are not my daies few?
Fourthly, He entreateth and sueth that the few days of those few days which he had to live, might be good days, Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take