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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.
This word age, is taken three ways.
This word age, is taken three waies.
1. For the whole space of mans life; which, when it is doubled, ⟨p. 55⟩signifies a very long life, Psal. 61.7. Thou shalt prolong the Kings life (or, according to the letter of the Hebrew, thou shalt add days to the days of the King) and his years as many generations; or, as generation and generation, age and age: long and long, that is, very long; Two lives, or two mens ages, being (as it were) laid into one.
1. For the whole space of mans life; which, when it is doubled, ⟨p. 55⟩signifies a very long life, Psal. 61.7. Thou shalt prolong the Kings life (or, according to the letter of the Hebrew, thou shalt adde daies to the daies of the King) and his years as many gen•rations; or, as generation and generation, age and age: long and long, that is, very long; Two lives, or two mens ages, being (as it were) laid into one.
2. For some special part of mans life. Mans life is divided into several ages. Some divide it into four, alluding to the four parts of the year. Some, into five, infancy, childhood, youth, mans-estate, and old-age; comparing them to the five acts of an interlude, the Prologue whereof is infancy, and the Epilogue, decrepit old-age. Others into seven, in allusion to the seven Planets.