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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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Water runs clear till 'tis troubled and stirred by some outward violence: But the spirits of some men run muddy, though nothing from without stirs them. The Prophet compares all wicked men to the troubled Sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt (Isa. 57.20.) The Sea is not always troubled, when the Winds are quiet, that is quiet; we often see a smooth Sea, as smooth as Glass: A wicked man is like the Sea when 'tis enraged, he is such a Sea as knows no calm; he is like the Sea, not only when it is troubled, but when it cannot rest. Though no breath of Wind from abroad offend him, yet he storms: He hath lusts in his own bowels, which provoke him when nothing else doth; yea those lusts within provoke him, when all without labour to pacify him.
Water runs cleare till 'tis troubled and stirr'd by some outward violence: But the spirits of some men run muddy, though nothing from without stirrs them. The Prophet compares all wicked men to the troubled Sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt (Isa. 57.20.) The Sea is not alwayes troubled, when the Windes are quiet, that is quiet; wee often see a smooth Sea, as smooth as Glasse: A wicked man is like the Sea when 'tis enraged, he is such a Sea as knows no calme; he is like the Sea, not onely when it is troubled, but when it cannot rest. Though no breath of Winde from abroad offend him, yet he stormes: He hath lusts in his owne bowels, which provoke him when nothing else doth; yea those lusts within provoke him, when all without labour to pacifie him.
So David complains (Psal. 120.5, 7.) Woe is me that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the Tents of Kedar; that is, With the Sons or descendants of Ishmael, who have learned of their Father to mock and persecute; I dwell in the Tents of Kedar: But what caused them to mock and persecute? Was it any provocation that David had given them? No, for he saith in the next words, I am for peace (I would live quietly with all my heart) but when I speak, they are for War. A motion for Peace, becomes a provocation to War? It is sinful to speak rashly, or harshly, though we are provoked; what is it then to speak so when we are not provoked? They angered Moses at the waters of strife, they provoked his spirit; yet it went ill with Moses for their sakes, when he spake unadvisedly with his lips (