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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
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But some may demand, How doth this suite with the former Verse? Where Eliphaz told us, that A wicked man travels in pain all his days: How is he in prosperity, if he travels all his days in pain? I answer, The denomination is given from the greatest part of a wicked mans life, and that is trouble and pain. Or secondly, if an instance can be given of any wicked man, that hath had more good days then evil, or that hath had no ill days at all, in regard of any outward trouble and pain, then we may reconcile the Text thus; his prosperity is beside his state, yea,1 in his very prosperity he is in pain: In the midst of laughter his heart is sorrowful, and the end of his mirth is heaviness (Prov. 14.13.) His is but a seeming, not a real prosperity.
But some may demand, How doth this suite with the former Verse? Where Eliphaz told us, that A wicked man travells in paine all his dayes: How is he in prosperity, if he travells all his dayes in paine? I answer, The denomination is given from the greatest part of a wicked mans life, and that is trouble and paine. Or secondly, if an instance can be given of any wicked man, that hath had more good dayes then evill, or that hath had no ill dayes at all, in regard of any outward trouble and paine, then we may reconcile the Text thus; his prosperity is beside his state, yea,1 in his very prosperity he is in paine: In the midst of laughter his heart is sorrowfull, and the end of his mirth is heavinesse (Prov. 14.13.) His is but a seeming, not a reall prosperity.
- 1Est amplificatio malae cujusdam impiorum securitatis q. d. si contingat impium nihil timere sed secure agere tunc & inopinato opprimetur. Pined.