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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 10
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.
The whole World lieth in wickedness (which is a moral filthiness) so that to be the filth of the World is to be the filth of filthiness; the filth of a clean thing is bad enough, what then is the filth of a filthy thing? The off-scouring of any thing is base, then what is the off-scouring of all things, which must needs include the basest things? These Apostles who were the ornament and glory, the purest and most refined pieces of the whole inferior World, were yet made (not that these reproaches did at all change them from what they were in themselves, but they made them to be in the opinion of others, what they least of all were) the rubbish, and the refuse, the sweepings, and the dross of the whole ⟨p. 272⟩World. The Apologies of Tertullian and others, do abundantly testify what reproaches the Primitive Christians suffered, both in reference to their practice and worship. Athanasius was called Sathanasius (as if he had been a Devil incarnate) by the Abettors of the Arian Heresy, which he stiffly opposed:1 And some who were displeased with the Opinions and Writings of Cyprianus, called him in contempt, Coprianus, or one that gathers dung, as if his Books were nothing but dung heaps.
The whole World lieth in wickednesse (which is a morall filthinesse) so that to be the filth of the World is to be the filth of filthinesse; the filth of a cleane thing is bad enough, what then is the filth of a filthy thing? The off-scouring of any thing is base, then what is the off-scouring of all things, which must needs include the basest things? These Apostles who were the ornament and glory, the purest and most refined peeces of the whole inferiour World, were yet made (not that these reproaches did at all change them from what they were in themselves, but they made them to be in the opinion of others, what they least of all were) the rubbish, and the refuse, the sweepings, and the drosse of the whole ⟨p. 272⟩World. The Apologies of Tertullian and others, doe abundantly testifie what reproaches the Primitive Christians suffered, both in reference to their practice and worship. Athanasius was called Sathanasius (as if he had been a Devil incarnate) by the Abbettors of the Arrian Heresie, which he stiffely opposed: