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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 15 › Verse 9
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First, Man is apt to stand upon terms of comparison with man; 1he cannot bear it that another should be thought or think himself wiser or more knowing then he: Some are not troubled because they know little, but because they are esteemed less knowing then others, What knowest thou that we know not?
First, Man is apt to stand upon termes of comparison with man; 1he cannot beare it that another should be thought or thinke himselfe wiser or more knowing then he: Some are not troubled because they know little, but because they are esteemed lesse knowing then others, What knowest thou that we know not?
- 1Qui velit ingenio cedar rarus erit.Qui velit ingenio cedere rarus erit.
Secondly observe, Though some men are of higher parts, and better natural abilities then others, yet what one man knoweth, others may; No man can boast himself beyond the line and degree of man. For as the heart of man answers the heart of man in sinfulness, so in a possibility of goodness. One man may be as holy as another, as wise and knowing as another; only God ⟨p. 30⟩is more holy, wise, and knowing then any man can be; he knoweth many things which no man knoweth nor can know. But though it be a strain of pride, for one man to say to another, What knowest thou that I know not? Yet it is a truth that one man may know as much as another: and though some men know that which another man (in regard of some personal impediments) neither doth nor can know, yet the humane nature in every person is capable of the same, both kind and degree of knowledge.
Secondly observe, Though some men are of higher parts, and better naturall abilities then others, yet what one man knoweth, others may; No man can boast himselfe beyond the line and degree of man. For as the heart of man answers the heart of man in sinfulnesse, so in a possibility of goodnesse. One man may be as holy as another, as wise and knowing as another; onely God