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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
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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.
Again, Their belly; that is, their mind prepareth.
Againe, Their belly; that is, their minde prepareth.
Hence Note.
The mind of man is the Shop wherein deceit is framed: Yea, the mind is not only the Shop, but the Artificer; and it is not only the Shop and the Artificer, but the very Tool that frames it: The understanding and wit of a wicked man, hammer out and shape all his deceitful wares.
The minde of man is the Shop wherein deceit is framed: Yea, the minde is not onely the Shop, but the Artificer; and it is not onely the Shop and the Artificer, but the very Tool that frames it: The understanding and wit of a wicked man, hammer out and shape all his deceitfull wares.
The hand and tongue begin where the mind ends; The tongue publisheth, and the hand executes what the mind prepares, and the heart suggests. That which one of the old Poets said of the belly, under the notion of Appetite and Hunger, the same we may say of the belly, in the notion of this preparing; This belly is the Master of all sinful Arts, and that which gives out and furnisheth man with all the cunning deceits of wickedness. Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,