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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 4
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Secondly, Because afflictions which lye upon the soul, are most afflictive: The sensitive power of the body, is called ⟨p. 228⟩the soul, and we are most sensible of those afflictions which fall immediately upon the rational soul. That man forgets the sorrows of his body, whose soul is sorrowful. The more inward any suffering is, the more grievous it is.
Secondly, Because afflictions vvhich lye upon the soule, are most afflictive: The sensitive power of the body, is called ⟨p. 228⟩the soule, and vve are most sensible of those afflictions vvhich fall immediately upon the rationall soule. That man forgets the sorrowes of his body, whose soule is sorrowfull. The more inward any suffering is, the more greivous it is.
I also could speak as you do, if your soul were in my souls stead, &c.
I also could speake as you doe, if your soule were in my soules stead, &c.
Some read the words Interrogatively, Could I speak as you do? If your soul were in my souls stead, could I heap up words against you, and shake my head at you? Master Broughton gives that sense fully, Would I speak as you, if you were in my place, would I compose bare words against you, and nod upon you with my head? The meaning is Negative, If you were in my souls stead, I could do none of these things. Could I do them? No (as we say) I could as soon eat my own flesh as do them: If I were at ease, and you in pain, could I deal thus with you? I would dye rather then deal so with you. This reading is good, and hath a greater emphasis in it then our bare affirmative reading, though the sense and scope of both be the same.