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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
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.
As thus the whole World passeth away, so doth the state of each man in the World. And as there is in the World an affected varying of fashions, or a voluntary passing from one vain fashion to another, from one proud fashion to another; so there is an inflicted variety of fashion in the World; God makes man pass from one fashion to another, whether he will or no, or much against his will; when his fashion was fullness, he makes it emptiness, when his fashion was riches, he makes it poverty; when his fashion was Peace and quietness, he makes it War and confusion; these are the changes which God makes among the fashions of the World. The pride of man changes from one vain fashion to another; the providence of God changes man from his most delightful, to a mournful fashion: And when the Garments of outward prosperity seem to us so strong, that they will never wear out, how much or how long so ever we wear them, he tears and breaks both them and us, as Job complains with his next breath.
As thus the whole World passeth awy, so doth the state of each man in the World. And as there is in the World an affected varying of fashions, or a voluntary passing from one vaine fashion to another, from one proud fashion to another; so there is an inflicted variety of fashion in the World; God makes man passe from one fashion to another, whether he will or no, or much against his will; when his fashion was fulnesse, he makes it emptinesse, when his fashion was riches, he makes it poverty; when his fashion was Peace and quietnesse, hee makes it Warr and confusion; these are the changes which God makes among the fashions of the World. The pride of man changes from one vaine fashion to another; the providence of God changes man from his most delightfull, to a mournfull fashion: And when the Garments of outward prosperity seem to us so strong, that they will never vveare out, how much or how long so ever we weare them, hee teares and breaks both them and us, as Job complaines with his next breath.
He hath broken me asunder.