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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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Jobs Friends were not men of wind, nor were they mad, and the words which they spake had a general sense and savour ⟨p. 221⟩of truth and soberness in them; yet (as to Jobs particular case) they wanted some grains of truth and reason, they were too high and swelling, considering how low and humble he was; they were too full of passion, being spoken to a man so full of sufferings. And therefore though that censure of his Friends words, as vain (who indeed were wise and grave men) was too censorious and sharp, yet it must be granted, that their words also were too sharp, even such as vexed his spirit, and wore out his patience, upon which account he expects and begs an end of them. Shall vain words have an end? That is,1 Will you make an end of vain speaking? I pray do, I wish you would: Cut off the thread of this discourse, you have spun it out and continued it, but too long already.
Jobs Freinds were not men of winde, nor were they madd, and the words which they spake had a generall sense and savor ⟨p. 221⟩of truth and sobernesse in them; yet (as to Jobs particular case) they wanted some graines of truth and reason, they were too high and swelling, considering how low and humble he was; they were too full of passion, being spoken to a man so full of sufferings. And therefore though that censure of his Freinds words, as vaine (who indeed were wise and grave men) was too censorious and sharpe, yet it must be granted, that their words also were too sharpe, even such as vexed his spirit, and wore out his patience, upon which account he expects and begs an end of them. Shall vaine words have an end? That is,1 Will you make an end of vaine speaking? I pray doe, I wish you would: Cut off the thred of this discourse, you have spun it out and continued it, but too long alr•ady.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Finis a [Greek or Hebrew] praecidit abscidit. Quia finis est tam temporis quam rei praecisio & terminus.