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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1650
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 15 › Verse 35
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 word signifies, To prepare Accurately, Strongly.
Their belly prepareth deceit: They express a kind of curiosity in working, they are very exact in every point; they prepare with art, they will not have their work like a Cobweb, curious, yet weak; but they must have it strong too; they prepare for establishment, and plot as if it were for everlasting. So the word is used (Psal. 37.3. Psal. 89.14.) Righteousness and judgement are the habitation of Gods Throne. It is this word, The establishment or strength of Gods Throne is righteousness and judgement: Righteousness and judgement, are the basis and establishment of all Thrones; That which hath made Thrones to totter in all Ages, hath been the want of righteousness and judgement.
Their belly prepareth deceit: They expresse a kinde of curiosity in working, they are very exact in every point; they prepare with art, they will not have their work like a Copweb, curious, yet weak; but they must have it strong too; they prepare for establishment, and plot as if it were for everlasting. So the word is used (Psal. 37.3. Psal. 89.14.) Righteousnesse and judgement are the habitation of Gods Throne. It is this word, The establishment or strength of Gods Throne is righteousnesse and judgement: Righteousnesse and judgement, are the bassis and establishment of all Thrones; That which hath made Thrones to totter in all Ages, hath been the want of righteousnesse and judgement.
The wicked man in the Text prepares not only curiously, but strongly; as he likes no bungling, so he is not pleased with toys and and babbles; he would lay his designs so cunningly and so firmly, that as they said of the Powder-Plot, All the Devils in Hell shall not disappoint it: He hopes to catch and hold, not the weak Flies only, but the strongest Eagles, in his deceits and snares.