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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.
First, The rush is a very spongy, hoven, hollow substance, it is not solid or close-grained: An hypocrite hath no solidity, we call him a hollow-hearted man.
First, The rush is a very spungy, hoven, hollow substance, it is not solid or close-grain'd: An hypocrite hath no solidity, we call him a hollow-hearted man.
Secondly, Hypocrites are well compared to a rush or a flag, because in windy weather they sit which way soever the wind sits. They take no ha•• by a storm, because they yield to every turn: let the wind blow which way it will, the rush breaks neither body nor branch. Let things turn which way they will, hypocrites ⟨p. 76⟩can shift, and bend, and yield with them. And therefore when storms arise, which pull down and destroy many goodly trees of Gods own planting, these rushes continue. Hypocrites keep their standing, because they never stand. A great man being asked how he kept his honour and preferment in so many changes of wind and weather, of times and Princes, answered, By being a willow, and not an Oak. He that can sway, seldom breaks. Hypocrites in the Church and State, live by the same principles.
Secondly, Hypocrites are well compared to a rush or a flag, because in windy weather they sit which way soever the winde sits. They take no ha•• by a storm, because they yeeld to every turn: let the winde blow which way it will, the rush breaks neither body nor branch. Let things turn which way they will, hypocrites ⟨p. 76⟩can shift, and bend, and yeeld with them. And therefore when storms arise, which pull down and destroy many goodly trees of Gods own planting, these rushes continue. Hypocrites keep their standing, because they never stand. A great man being asked how he kept his honour and preferment in so many changes of winde and weather, of times and Princes, answered, By being a willow, and not an Oak. He that can sway, seldome breaks. Hypocrites in the Church and State, live by the same principles.