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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 13
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.
Spirit is here put for the will, thoughts, and counsels,1 of Man, clothed and elated with arrogancy, stoutness, and pride: In all languages, Spirit imports that which is high. And to say, Such a one is a man of spirit, notes not only the activeness of that man, but often his pride and haughtiness.
Spirit is here put for the will, thoughts, and counsells,1 of Man, cloathed and elated with arrogancy, stoutnesse, and pride: In all languages, Spirit imports that which is high. And to say, Such a one is a man of spirit, notes not onely the activenesse of that man, but often his pride and haughtinesse.
- 1Spiritus pro arrogantia. Latin diciur magnos gerere animos qui superbia tumet. Merc. Quid tumet adversus Deum spiritus tuus? Vulg. Quid torva convertis in caelum Lumina? quid in Deum refundis stomacum & evocas conceptam iram. Pined. Animum indignation accensum. Jun. Omnem spiritum suum depromit stultus. i. e. iram. Aben Ezra. Rege animum. i. e. iram. Horat.Spiritus pro arrogantia. Latine diciur magnos gerere animos qui superbia tumet. Merc. Quid tumet adversus Deum spiritus tuus? Vulg. Quid torva convertis in caelum Lumina? quid in Deum refundis stomacum & evocas conceptam iram. Pined. Animum indignatione accensum. Jun. Omnem spiritum suum depromit stultus. i. e. iram. Aben Ezra. Rege animum. i. e. iram. Horat.
Besides, Spirit is sometimes put for indignation, for fury, and wrath; in all which acceptions, the word may be rendered here, Thou turnest thy spirit, that is, thy anger and wrath, thy fury and indignation against God. So the word is used, Isa. 25.4. When the spirit, or blast of the terrible ones, is as a storm against the Wall; that is, while the fury of the terrible ones is in its highest march and motion, God promiseth to be a strength to the poor, a strength and a refuge to the needy in his distress: So