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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 clause is of the same importance with the former, only the sense is somewhat heightened. It notes, that the hypocrite shall not only lean upon his house, but he shall take strong hold upon his house, He shall fasten on it; so Mr Broughton. A man may lean to a thing, and have no hold of it; he that takes hold of a thing would make it firm to himself, and himself firm to it. Thus the hypocrite leans upon his house, and takes fast hold of it; if it would fall from him, if any attempt to pull him away from it, or he sticks to it, he will not let it go.
This clause is of the same importance with the former, only the sense is somewhat heightned. It notes, that the hypocrite shall not only lean upon his house, but he shall take strong hold upon his house, He shall fasten on it; so Mr Broughton. A man may lean to a thing, and have no hold of it; he that takes hold of a thing would make it firm to himself, and himself firm to it. Thus the hypocrite leans upon his house, and takes fast hold of it; if it would fall from him, if any attempt to pull him away from it, or he sticks to it, he will not let it go.
1The word signifies to hold fast, strongly and prevailingly. Jobs wife (Chap. 2.) speaks thus, Dost thou still hold fast thine integrity? And God himself speaks in the same language concerning Job, Doest thou not see, though thou hast moved me to afflict him without cause, how he holdeth fast his integrity? The hypocrite (after his manner, Mordicus tenet) holds his duties, performancies, gifts, tufly, or (as it were) with his very teeth, he will hold them to ⟨p. 99⟩the very death, and not let them go, the hypocrite will not give over, will not be beaten off from trusting to these false and weak props, here he sets up his rest, he will die by his gifts, his duties, his outward profession, and go no further.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Eam mordicus tenens, see in ea stabilem & firmum semper fore putans. Merc.