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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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Some worldly men, whose Barns are full, are ready to say every one to his soul, as he (Luke 12.19.) Soul take thine ease, thou hast goods laid up for many years: Another hath his Barnefull, and yet saith, This will not hold one year, and so gives his soul no ease at all. What the Apostle saith of himself, is true of all those who have an interest in Christ, (2 Cor. 6.10.) As poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things: But there are some rich, who make many poor, and themselves poorest of all; for though they have all those things, yet they are as if they possessed nothing. It is an affliction to be poor for want of riches, but it is a curse to be poor in the possession of riches. He that loves Silver shall not be satisfied with Silver (Eccles. 5.10.) To be satisfied, is more then to be rich, and he is always poor who is unsatisfied; he that expects satisfaction from the creature, shall never find contentation in the creature; and he that expects no satisfaction from the creature, hath contentation in any portion of the creature. A godly man learns in every estate to be content; a carnal man is content in no estate; when he is poor, he sees he hath nothing, and when he is rich, he saith he hath not enough. Thus he wanders as well when he is rich, as when he is poor, and is therefore never satisfied.
Some worldly men, whose Barns are full, are ready to say every one to his soule, as he (Luke 12.19.) Soule take thine ease, thou hast goods layd up for many yeares: Another hath his Barnefull, and yet saith, This will not hold one yeare, and so gives his soule no ease at all. What the Apostle saith of himselfe, is true of all those who have an interest in Christ, (2 Cor. 6.10.) As poore, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things: But there are some rich, who make many poore, and themselves poorest of all; for though they have all those things, yet they are as if they possessed nothing. It is an affliction to be poore for want of riches, but it is a curse to be poore in the possession of riches. Hee that loves Silver shall not be satisfied with Silver (