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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.
Taking Job (under Bildad's apprehension) as having failed and erred in his discourse. Observe, first,
Taking Job (under Bildads apprehension) as having failed and erred in his discourse. Observe, first,
Perseverance in evil is worse then the doing of evil, How long wilt thou sp•ak these things? If thou having spoken once amiss hadst recalled thy self, and stopped there, it had been more excusable, To outlash sometimes in a word, may be a wise mans case: but to ⟨p. 5⟩make such a continued studied oration as this, and be out in all, and all to be an invective against heaven, who is able to bear it? To speak or do ill though but once, is too often by once; To act evil often, is to double every act. The shortest time is too long to serve any lust in. When the Apostle Peter (1 Pet. 4.3.) saith, The time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles; his meaning is, the time past is too much: our lusts have got too much of our lives, as the world hath got too much of our loves. One minute is more then we owe to the service of sin. The sufficiency here spoken of is an excess; the time past of our lives is too much to work the will of the Gentiles. We may not make an equal division of our lives between our lusts and Christ, so much to Christ, so much to lust. Nothing is more unequal then this equality. We can never serve Christ too long, nor sin too short a time. We cannot bestow too much of our breath in holy speeches and conferences; nor can we bestow too little in those which are vain and sinful. We may justly take off those who are most concise and laconical in useless discourses, with, How long will you speak these things? Frothy words are the waste of time as well as of breath.
Perseverance in evil is worse then the doing of evil, How long wilt thou sp•ak these things? If thou having spoken once amisse had'st recall'd thy self, and stopped there, it had been more excusable, To outlash sometimes in a word, may be a wise mans case: but to