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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 21
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.
When Diphaz saith, A dreadful sound is in his ear, we may understand it two ways; either first, that a wicked man hearing the sad reports of approaching evil, is greatly troubled; or secondly, that a wicked man frames to himself an imaginary sound of evil. His fancy makes a noise, he thinks he hears the sound of Drums and Trumpets, the clattering of Armour, and the clashing of drawn Swords, he hears (as the Prophet Nahum elegantly describes it) The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the Wheels, and of the prancing Horses, and of the jumping Clarets. Now, whether we understand it of the approach of real dangers, the sound of which, are a terror to him, or whether we take it for those fantastic, panic fears and Satanical delusions, both or either of them render his life uncomfortable, and are the effects of an unquiet, or of a guilty conscience.
When Diphaz saith, A dreadfull sound is in his eare, we may understand it two wayes; either first, that a wicked man hearing the sad reports of approaching evill, is greatly troubled; or secondly, that a wicked man frames to himselfe an imaginary sound of evill. His fansie makes a noise, he thinkes he heares the sound of Drums and Trumpets, the clattering of Armour, and the clashing of drawne Swords, he heares (as the Prophet Nahum elegantly describes it) The noyse of the whip, and the noyse of the ratling of the Wheels, and of the pransing Horses, and of the jumping Clarrets. Now, whether we understand it of the approach of reall dangers, the sound of which, are a terror to him, or whether we take it for those fantastick, pannick feares and Satanicall delusions, both or either of them render his life uncomfortable, and are the effects of an unquiet, or of a guilty conscience.
Hence Observe.
A wicked man is always subject to fear; he that is a servant to sin cannot but be a slave to fear: And he that hath done much evil, suspects much.