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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.
A short life is by common estimation no life.
As in heaven, where we shall live for ever, we shall be, as if we had ever been: So on earth, some live so little, that they are as if they never were: That which hath an eternal duration, and shall never end, is as if it had ever begun; and that which is but of a short duration and ends quickly, is as if it had never begun. The reason why the fruit of sin goes for nothing, is, because the pleasure of sin is but for a season, and that a very little season, What fruit have ye of those things, whereof ye are now ashamed? That is, Ye have no fruit, or your fruit was nothing: we may say of all the pleasures of sin, their cradle is their grave, or more near Jobs language, they are carried from the womb to the grave. So he speaks next of himself, I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
As in heaven, where we shall live for ever, we shall be, as if we had ever been: So on earth, some live so little, that they are as if they never were: That which hath an eternall duration, and shall never end, is as if it had ever begun; and that which is but of a short duration and ends quickly, is as if it had never begun. The reason why the fruit of sinne goes for nothing, is, because the pleasure of sinne is but for a season, and that a very little season, What fruit have ye of those things, whereof ye are now ashamed? That is, Ye have no fruit, or your fruit was nothing: we may say of all the pleasures of sin, their cradle is their grave, or more near Iobs language, they are carried from the womb to the grave. So he speaks next of himself, I should have been carried from the womb to the grave.
I should have passed without noise or notice. There would have been little trouble with me in the world, I should have made but one journey, and that a short one. The speech is proverbial: From the womb to the grave,