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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 5
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God at first gave being and motion to all creatures, with the moving of his lips: He by the moving of his lips hath ever since ordered all their motions: The word of man produceth great effects, the tongue sets all hands on work; and what almost cannot the tongue of man do? The tongue is a little member (saith the Apostle James, Chap. 3.5.) •ond boasteth great things: Now as the tongues of vain men boast great things which they cannot do; so the tongues of wise men can really do great things. Vain men (as we say) will take thirteen to the dozen, but cannot perform one. Wise men though they speak not much, yet they can perform much with a word speaking. And though as the same Apostle declaims most holily against the tongue of a wicked man (Vers. 8.) that his tongue is such an unruly evil, that no man can tame it; yet there have scarce ever been found any men so unruly, but the tongues of wise and godly men have tamed them: yea the tongue of a wise man is to an unruly man, and often to a multitude of unruly men, as a bit in a Horses mouth, or as a Rudder to a Ship, turning him or them about which way soever he listeth; as this Apostle teacheth us by these similitudes (Vers. 3.4.) the tongue of every man is to, and doth to himself, whether it be good or evil. And as the tongue is thus powerful in civilizing the •ude, and in appeasing the humours of those who are most 'outrageous; so it is very powerful in supporting those that are ready to sink, and in assuaging the grief of those who are most disconsolate and sorrowful.
God at first gave being and motion to all creatures, with the moving of his lips: He by the moving of his lips hath ever since ordered all their motions: The word of man produceth great effects, the tongue sets all hands on worke; and what almost cannot the tongue of man doe? The tongue is a little member (saith the Apostle James, Chap. 3.5.) •ond boasteth great things: Now as the tongues of vaine men boast great things which they cannot doe; so the tongues of wise men can really doe great things. Vaine men (as we say) will take thirteene to the duzzen, but cannot performe one. Wise men though they speake not much, yet they can performe much with a word speaking. And though as the same Apostle declaimes most holily against the tongue of a wicked man (Vers. 8.) that his tongue is such an unruly evill, that no man can tame it; yet there have scarse ever been found any men so unruly, but the tongues of wise and godly men have tamed them: yea the tongue of a vvise man is to an unruly man, and often to a multitude of unruly men, as a bit in a Horses mouth, or as a Rudder to a Ship, turning him or them about which way soever he listeth; as this Apostle teacheth us by these similitudes (Vers. 3.4.) the tongue of every man is to, and doth to himselfe, vvhether it be good or evill. And as the tonge is thus powerfull in civillizing the ude, and in appeasing the humours of those who are most 'outragious; so it is very powerfull in supporting those that are ready to sinke, and in asswaging the griefe of those who are most disconsolate and sorrowfull.