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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.
The similitude is explained in the 16, 17, and 18. verses, and applied in the 19th.
The hypocrite was first compared to a rush or a flag. Secondly, to a spiders web. But now to a goodly tree. This third similitude grants the hypocrite the best of his condition, and puts him in the fairest posture that can be imagined, and yet all proves naught; his root is but rottenness, and his blossom shall go up as the dust; or his branches shall be cut down, and his root stubbed up. It is as if Bildad had said; If you think I have spoken too little and too low, or have debased the hypocrite more then was meet, by comparing him to a poor rush or a flag, and his estate to a spiders web; then take him in his highest notion, let him be looked upon as a green flourishing tree before the Sun, fastening his roots, and spreading out his branches, yet you shall see, at the last, destruction is his end. Behold, this is the joy of the hypocrite.
The hypocrite was first compared to a rush or a flag. Secondly, to a spiders web. But now to a goodly tree. This third similitude grants the hypocrite the best of his condition, and puts him in the fairest posture that can be imagined, and yet all proves naught; his root is but rottennesse, and his blossome shall go up as the dust; or his branches shall be cut down, and his root stubbed up. It is as if Bildad had said; If you thinke I have spoken too little and too low, or have debased the hypocrite more then was meet, by comparing him to a poor rush or a flag, and his estate to a spiders web; then take him in his highest notion, let him be looked upon as a green flourishing tree before the Sunne, fastening his roots, and spreading out his branches, yet you shall see, at the last, destruction is his end. Behold, this is the joy of the hypocrite.
That's the sum, and the general sense of the words.