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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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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, 1I could be as nimble at this figure as you; and with my speech I could mix your action.
That is, I could make long speeches, and enlarge my selfe in discourse, I could speake terrour, and thunder out whole volleys of threats against you; I could deafe your eares with loud voyces, and sad your hearts with heavy censures. There is a figure in Rhetorick called Congeries, or The Heape. Many words to the same sense, especially when there is little in them but words, are called justly, a heape of words: Now, saith Job, 1I could be as nimble at this figure as you; and with my speech I could mix your action.
- 1Quassare caput, apud authores Latinos gestus est hominis irati aut minantis aut lamentantis. Drus.. Ridentes caput motitant. Drus.
Shake my head at you.
Shaking the head, notes scorn and threatening (Psal. 22.7.) All they that seem, laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, and shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord, &c. So the afflicted Church complains (