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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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Thus of the words as they are read in the form of a wish.
Thus of the words as they are read in the forme of a wish.
We read them as a Supposition, If your souls were in my souls stead: And then the two latter branches must be interpreted as acts of unfriendliness, showing what Job could, but would not do, as was touched before.
We read them as a Supposition, If your soules were in my soules stead: And then the two latter branches must be interpreted as acts of unfreindlinesse, shewing what Job could, but would not doe, as was toucht before.
I could heap up words against you.
That is, I could make long speeches, and enlarge my self in discourse, I could speak terror, and thunder out whole volleys of threats against you; I could deaf your ears with loud voices, and sad your hearts with heavy censures. There is a figure in Rhetoric called Congeries, or The Heap. Many words to the same sense, especially when there is little in them but words, are called justly, a heap of words: Now, saith Job,