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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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To be brought to a piece of bread (of our own) is to be brought to the lowest ebb in worldly things,1 (Prov. 6.26.) By means of a whorish woman, a man is brought to a piece of bread; That is, he is made very poor. And if he be at a low ebb, who hath but a piece of bread of his own: what are they who are forced to ask so low as a piece of bread of others? To want bread is ill, but wonder about for bread is far worse. He that wants bread is pinched, but he that wanders for it is disgraced.
To be brought to a peece of bread (of our owne) is to be brought to the lowest ebb in worldly things,1 (Prov. 6.26.) By meanes of a whorish woman, a man is brought to a peece of bread; That is, he is made very poore. And if he be at a low ebb, who hath but a peece of bread of his owne: what are they who are forced to aske so low as a piece of bread of others? To want bread is ill, but wonder about for bread is far worse. He that wants bread is pincht, but he that wanders for it is disgraced.
- 1Exul, inops errs alienaque limina lustres Ovid. in Ibin.Exul, inops erres alienaque limina lustres Ovid. in Ibin.
Observe hence, first.
To want and wander about for bread, is a sore affliction; Such an affliction, as David professeth he never observed the righteous mans seed fallen into (