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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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Poverty or want is not a mark of Gods disfavour, no more then riches are a mark of his love: Yet some want and poverty, that especially, which is accompanied with a continual wandering for bread, is a mark of Gods disfavour. it was a Prophetical curse upon the Traitor Judas and his Posterity (Psal. 109.10.) Let his Children be continually Vagabonds and beg, let them seek their bread out of desolate places. And experience tells us, that though sometimes a Lazarus, a good man beg, yet the race and generality of professed Beggars are the worst of mankind.
Poverty or want is not a marke of Gods disfavour, no more then riches are a marke of his love: Yet some want and poverty, that especially, which is accompanied with a continuall wandering for bread, is a mark of Gods disfavour. it was a Propheticall curse upon the Traytor Judas and his Posterity (Psal. 109.10.) Let his Children be continually Vagabonds and begg, let them seek their bread out of desolate places. And experience tells us, that though sometimes a Lazarus, a good man begg, yet the race and generality of professed Beggars are the worst of mankinde.
Secondly, whereas Eliphaz speaks specially of the Oppressor, and tells us, that he wanders about for bread.
Secondly, whereas Eliphaz speakes specially of the Oppressor, and tells us, that he wanders about for bread.
We may observe.