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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 16 › Verse 4
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.
If your soul were in my souls stead.
If your soule were in my soules stead.
Some read this Optatively, or as a wish, O that your soul were in my souls stead; and then the latter words are taken as a promise or profession of offices of love: First, I would heap up words for you.
Some read this Optatively, or as a wish, O that your soule were in my soules stead; and then the latter vvords are taken as a promise or profession of offices of love: First, I would heap up words for you.
1The Hebrew word which we translate to heap, signifies properly to prepare and fit a thing, to fashion and put it into a good frame; it is not a rude, inartificial heaping of things together, without form or fashion, as the first Chaos was; but a beautiful elegant digestion or composure of them, in the exactest form and fashion, like that of the several pieces of the World, conjoined in that work of the six days creation: As if he had said, O that your soul were a while in my souls stead, see how I would use you, how I would deal with you; truly, all the hurt I would do to you, should be this, I would prepare the softest and the sweetest words I could with all my skill and rhetoric, to ease your sorrows; I would speak music to your ears, and joy to your hearts; I would study and compose a speech on purpose, to revive and raise your drooping, desponding spirits.
1The Hebrew word vvhich vve translate to heap, signifies properly to prepare and fit a thing, to fashion and put it into a good frame; it is not a rude, inartificiall heaping of things together, vvithout forme or fashion, as the first Chaos was; but a beautifull elegant digestion or composure of them, in the exactest forme and fashion, like that of the severall peices of the World, conjoyned in that vvorke of the six dayes creation: As if he had sayd, O that your soule were a while in my soules stead, see how I would use you, how I would deale with you; truely, all the hurt I would doe to you, should be this, I would prepare the softest and the sweetest words I could with all my skill and rhetorick, to ease your sorrows; I would speake musicke to your eares, and joy to your hearts; I would study and compose a speech on purpose, to revive and raise your drooping, desponding spirits.