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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 8
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.
Fatness riseth up, and not leanness, when a man grows lean, his flesh falls, and abates; skin and bone stick together, ⟨p. 260⟩Why then doth he say, My leanness riseth up?
Fatnesse riseth up, and not leannesse, when a man growes leane, his flesh fals, and abates; skin and bone stick together, ⟨p. 260⟩Why then doth hee say, My leannesse riseth up?
Though, when a man is lean, his flesh falls, yet his bones rise: A fat mans bones are (as it were) buried in flesh, you can scase feel his ribs, but when he grows lean, his bones stick out, and rise up: That is the meaning here, my leanness rising up.
Though, when a man is leane, his flesh falls, yet his bones rise: A fat mans bones are (as it were) buried in flesh, you can scase feele his ribs, but when he growes leane, his bones stick out, and rise up: That is the meaning here, my leannesse rising up.
1Job ascribes a rational act, both to his wrinkles and to his leanness, as if both did speak, and which is more, give evidence concerning him; he brings them forth as witnesses at the bar, this speaks, and that speaks, he doubles it, My wrinkles witness against me, and my leanness rising up witnesseth to my face: When a witness is to give in his evidence in any cause before a Judge, he riseth up, or standeth forth, that all may see him; Job presents his leanness in the proper posture of a witness rising up.