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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 23
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Secondly, To wander, is the condition of a man who hath no settled dwelling. Paul was once in such a state, Even to this present hour we both hunger &c. and have no certain dwelling place (1 Cor. 4.11.) This also was the lot of the Jewish Martyrs, They wandered about in Sheeps-skins, &c. (Heb. 11.37.) These were holy wanderers: They wandered in the World, that they might not wander from God. Here we have an unholy wanderer, who having gone astray from God, found no rest among men, a down-right Vagabond; for so the word is applied to ⟨p. 111⟩Cain (Gen. 4.) A fugitive and vagabond shalt thou be; and we in our Law, call a sort of idle Beggars, Vagabonds, such as go from Country to Country, from house to house, to seek their bread. Such also were among the Jews, who are therefore called Vagabond Jews, (Acts 19.13.) To be a wanderer was one of the sharpest threats that God ever denounced against his people, My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken to him, and they shall be wanderers among the Nations.
Secondly, To wander, is the condition of a man who hath no setled dwelling. Paul was once in such a state, Even to this present houre we both hunger &c. and have no certaine dwelling place (1 Cor. 4.11.) This also was the lot of the Jewish Martyrs, They wandered about in Sheeps-skins, &c. (Heb. 11.37.) These were holy wanderers: They wandered in the World, that they might not wander from God. Here we have an unholy wanderer, who having gone astray from God, found no rest among men, a downe-right Vagabond; for so the word is applyed to ⟨p. 111⟩Cain (Gen. 4.) A fugitive and vagabond shalt thou be; and we in our Law, call a sort of idle Beggars, Vagabonds, such as goe from Countrey to Countrey, from house to house, to seek their bread. Such also were among the Jewes, who are therefore called Vagabond Jewes, (