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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 15 › Verse 11
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The first of these secret things never stands in the way of receiving consolation; he that hath hidden comfort in him, will not refuse spoken comforts; nor do I think that Eliphaz aimed at that, unless in scorn, as some resolve it:1 but rather at one of or both the latter, though mistaken in both. Yet his suspicion gives us a ground for these two Observations.
The first of these secret things never stands in the way of receiving consolation; he that hath hidden comfort in him, will not refuse spoken comforts; nor doe I thinke that Eliphaz aymed at that, unlesse in scorne, as some resolve it:1 but rather at one of or both the latter, though mistaken in both. Yet his suspition gives us a ground for these two Observations.
- 1Malo in bonum sumi, licet hoc in eum Eliphaz dicat, eum ridens. Merc.
First, That a man who is full of his own wisdom, is not fit to receive instruction, counsel, or consolation from others; 1that which is within hinders that which comes from without: When a man thinks himself wiser then his teachers, he will not be taught, nor learn wisdom by them. Some might have known much, if they had not presumed they knew enough. There is no greater impediment of knowledge, then an opinion of it.
First, That a man who is full of his owne wisedome, is not fit to receive instruction, counsell, or consolation from others; 1that which is within hinders that which comes from without: When a man thinks himselfe wiser then his teachers, he will not be taught, nor learne wisedome by them. Some might have knowne much, if they had not presumed they knew enough. There is no greater impediment of knowledge, then an opinion of it.