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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
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.
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.
Oppression is the nearest way to poverty: They who make Beggars to satisfy their lusts, shall be forced to beg for the satisfying of their hunger. It is very dangerous to make provision for the flesh by lawful means, to fulfil the lusts of it; but it is most dangerous to make provision for the flesh by unlawful means (by wrong and oppression) to fulfil the lusts of it. They who so fulfil their lusts, shall soon be brought to want. Hannah sung out this sudden change (1 Sam. 2.5.) They that were full have hired themselves out for bread, and they that were hungry ceased. Not that they ceased to be, but they ceased to be hungry, or their hunger ceased. Godly empty ones were filled, and wicked full ones were emptied; and that which ⟨p. 113⟩makes the want and emptiness of a wicked man so great a misery, is his want of faith and patience when he is empty; he hath done so much evil, that he hath no faith to believe, that any man will do him good, therefore his poverty fills him with impatience, and his mind is more unsettled then his estate.
Oppression is the neerest way to poverty: They who make Beggars to satisfie their lusts, shall be forced to begg for the satisfying of their hunger. It is very dangerous to make provision for the flesh by lawfull meanes, to fulfill the lusts of it; but it is most dangerous to make provision for the flesh by unlawfull means (by wrong and oppression) to fulfill the lusts of it. They who so fulfill their lusts, shall soon be brought to want. Hannah sung out this suddaine change (