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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 Apostle saith, They glory in their shame (Phil. 3.19.) not formally, but materially. No man can glory in any thing under the notion of shame, but many glory in that which is in it self shameful,1 and will be their shame. The Hebrew expresses an Idol, by a word that signifies shame, or a shameful thing (and it is the root of that in the text) because Idols, first or last, make their worshippers ashamed, Jer. 11.13. According to the number of thy Cities were thy gods, O Judah, ye have set up altars to that shameful thing. Idolaters shall see at last how foolish they have been in worshipping a stock or a stone, in adoring the inventions of their own brains, which can do them no good in an evil day: every Idol is a shameful thing, because it deceiveth it's worshippers: so every sinful act will be like an Idol, matter of shame, because every sin is a deceit, Isa. 26. They shall be ashamed for their envy at my people: They shall see their envy against the people of God was unreasonable, groundless and fruitless, therefore they shall be ashamed; and if they shall be ashamed of their envy against the people of God, how shall they be ashamed of their opposition and injuries, of their oppression and injustice, Isa. 41.11. Behold all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed. The Churches enemies glory in their own shame, and the Church shall glory in the shame of her enemies; therefore she is called to behold it, as a piece of her glory.
The Apostle saith, They glory in their shame (Phil. 3.19.) not formally, but materially. No man can glory in any thing under the notion of shame, but many glory in that which is in it self shamefull,1 and will be their shame. The Hebrew expresses an Idol, by a word that signifies shame, or a shamefull thing (and it is the root of that in the text) because Idols, first or last, make their worshippers ashamed,