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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.
Even in the time of his greenness, he shall be destroyed, and when his roots are wrapped about the heap. Trees stand so long sometimes, that they wither of themselves, and then we cut them ⟨p. 111⟩down for the fire, but this man shall be cut down like a tree in his prime, in his flourishing, when affliction and withering seem farthest off, when he thinks least of destruction, then it shall come upon him; when his estate is like Jonah's gourd, a very pleasant plant, and a great rejoicing to him, a worm smites the roots and kills it.
Even in the time of his greennesse, he shall be destroyed, and when his roots are wrapped about the heap. Trees stand so long sometimes, that they wither of themselves, and then we cut them ⟨p. 111⟩down for the fire, but this man shall be cut down like a tree in his prime, in his flourishing, when affliction and withering seem farthest off, when he thinks least of destruction, then it shall come upon him; when his estate is like Jonah's gourd, a very pleasant plant, and a great rejoycing to him, a worme smites the roots and kils it.
That of Job (Chap. 20.22.) is full to this point, In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: A strange thing that a man should be in straits, when he is in his greatest enlargement, that a man should be emptied when he is full, that a man should be nothing, when he hath all sufficiency about him, yet thus it shall be, In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits. As a godly man hath a sufficiency in his wants, yea a fullness of sufficiency in his wants: So on the other side, an hypocrite, whose heart is false with God, hath want in his sufficiency, yea want in the fullness of his sufficiency. Which may be understood two ways; either that his fullness in the greatest sufficiency of it is unsatisfying; or that his fullness in the greatest sufficiency of it, is upon decaying and abating. (Psal. 78.13