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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 18
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He doth not mean worldly wise men, Philosophers and Politicians; but godly wise men, these have told it from their Fathers; their Fathers told it them, and they told it me; so that this position claims by two descents at least. One of the Rabbins gives it three, if not more: for by the Fathers ⟨p. 80⟩of the wise men he understands, not their immediate Fathers only, but those who were more remote and further off; yea, possibly those who were furthest off, even as far as Adam.
He doth not meane worldly wise men, Philosophers and Polititians; but godly wise men, these haue told it from their Fathers; their Fathers told it them, and they told it me; so that this position claimes by two descents at least. One of the Rabbins gives it three, if not more: for by the Fathers ⟨p. 80⟩of the wise men he understands, not their immediate Fathers onely, but those who were more remote and further off; yea, possibly those who were furthest off, even as far as Adam.
Hence Observe:
First, It is an ingenuity to acknowledge by whom we profit, wise men have told me this, I received it from others, as well as collected it by my own experience.
First, It is an ingenuity to acknowledge by whom we profit, wise men have told me this, I received it from others, as well as collected it by my owne experience.