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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.
Go to the fathers, they will certainly teach thee. Every man should labour to have a proportion of knowledge to his proportion of years, we should not be children in understanding, when we are men in time. The Apostle reproves such as are so (Heb. 5.2.) When (saith he) for the time you ought to be teachers (look upon the years that are gone over your heads, and you ought to be teachers; you should have much in your hearts for the instruction of others, yet so it is) you have need that one teach you again, which be the first principles of the oracles of God, and you are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Go to the fathers, they will certainly teach thee. Every man should labour to have a proportion of knowledge to his proportion of years, we should not be children in understanding, when we are men in time. The Apostle reproves such as are so (Heb. 5.2.) When (saith he) for the time you ought to be teachers (look upon the yeers that are gone over your heads, and you ought to be teachers; you should have much in your hearts for the instruction of others, yet so it is) you have need that one teach you again, which be the first principles of the oracles of God, and you are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Secondly, observe, They who are dead and gone, yet speak to us as if they were living.
Bildad sends Job to the ancient fathers, Go, they will teach thee and utter words out of their heart. Whilst we consider what they have spoken and done, it is as if they now spake, Heb. 11.4. Abel by faith offered a better sacrifice then Cain, and being dead he yet speaketh. They who are dead speak by their works, and they speak by the words which they spake, while they were alive. The records which they have left give us counsel to this day. When the rich man (it is the scope of the Parable) I say, when the rich man (