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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 12
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Job makes this report of his former prosperity,1 that he might move his Friends to pity him in his present misery. It is a rhetorical argument: The Orator gives this rule, when we would stir up compassion towards a man in misery, we must first describe in what heights he hath stood, and then show how low he is fallen; we are not so much affected with any mans being in a low estate, as with his falling from a low estate. When Lucifer the Son of the morning, falls from Heaven, and falls into Hell, to the sides of the Pit; this sets all men a wondering (Isa. 14.11, 12, 15.)
Job makes this report of his former prosperity,1 that hee might move his Freinds to pitty him in his present misery. It is a rhetoricall argument: The Orator gives this rule, when we would stirr up compassion towards a man in misery, wee must first describe in what heights he hath stood, and then shew how low he is fallen; we are not so much affected with any mans being in a low estate, as with his falling from a low estate. When Lucifer the Son of the morning, fals from Heaven, and fals into Hell, to the sides of the Pit; this sets all men a wondering (Isa. 14.11, 12, 15.)
- 1Miserationem movet a prior statu. Merc. Primus locus miserecordiae est per quem quibus in bonis fuerit, & nunc quibus in malis sit ostenditur. Cic. de Invent. lib. 1.Miserationem movet a priore statu. Merc. Primus locus miserecordiae est per quem quibus in bonis fuerit, & nunc quibus in malis sit ostenditur. Cic. de Invent. lib. 1.
Hence Observe.