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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 16 › Verse 3
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We read of a strange distemper in two sorts of men, who ought of all others to be most composed and temperate (Hos. 9.7.1) The Prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad: Our Translators put in the Margin, The man of the spirit: for Ruach in Hebrew, signifieth both the wind that blows in the air, and the spirit of God which moveth in our hearts: We take that sense, The spiritual man, or the man of the spirit; that is, the man that pretends to have, or should have the spirit of God (his business lying wholly in spirituals) this man is mad; he is so far from acting to the height of those graces which the spirit gives, that he acts below that reason which nature gives.
We read of a strange distemper in two sorts of men, who ought of all others to be most composed and temperate (Hos. 9.7.1) The Prophet is a foole, the spirituall man is madd: Our Translators put in the Margin, The man of the spirit: for Ruach in Hebrew, signifieth both the winde that blowes in the ayre, and the spirit of God which moveth in our hearts: We take that sense, The spirituall man, or the man of the spirit; that is, the man that pretends to have, or should have the spirit of God (his businesse lying wholly in spirituals) this man is madd; he is so farr from acting to the height of those graces which the spirit gives, that he acts below that reason which nature gives.
- 1Ish ruach.
Yet the Original may be rendered thus (and so diverse learned Hebricians render it) The man of wind, or the windy man, is mad: Anger is a short madness, and he that speaks angerly, is in danger to speak madly.