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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.
Hardened himself.
1Hardening under a natural consideration, comes by withdrawing the moisture out of any substance, whence the parts of it are condensed, grew stiff and unyielding to the touch: So Philosophers define it. That is hard which doth not easily submit to impressions from without.
1Hardening under a naturall consideration, comes by withdrawing the moisture out of any substance, whence the parts of it are condensed, grew stiff and unyeelding to the touch: So Philosophers define it. That is hard which doth not easily submit to impressions from without.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Indurare aut obdurescere. Metaphoricè à tactu ad alios sensus transfertur; & denotat crudele saevum, difficile, quod dura sunt difficilia. Durum est quod in se per superficiem non cedit Arist. l. 4. Met. c. 4. Durities est qualitas densas & been compactas habens parts, difficulter cedens tactui. Arist. l. 2. de Gener.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Indurare aut obdurescere. Metaphoricè à tactu ad alios sensus transfertur; & denotat crudele saevum, difficile, quod dura sunt difficilia. Durum est quod in se per superficiem non cedit Arist. l. 4. Met. c. 4. Durities est qualitas densas & bene compactas habens partes, difficulter cedens tactui. Arist. l. 2. de Gener.
In a moral sense, to harden is to settle the spirit, or immovably to resolve upon the doing or not doing of a thing: when a man doth purposely resolve and resolvedly purpose to carry on a design, he hardeneth himself to do it. The word is used both in a good sense and in an ill sense. In a good sense, when a man is resolute to do the will of God, that is, when he grows so resolved, that he will not be removed by hopes or fears, by promises or by threats; When a man hath not a soft, sequacious spirit to be swayed this way and that way, but stands fixed and firm like a rock, such a resolute spirit in goodness, is a spirit hardened to do good.