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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 25
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Secondly, Mans stretching out his hand, 1speaks the confidence of a man, that he shall carry all before him, and win the day; it is usual with contenders, especially with Soldiers, before they join Battle, to stretch their hands out, to draw and brandish their Swords, in token both of their courage to fight, and of their confidence to prevail. Obstinate sinners are full of false hopes that they shall obtain what they design, and prosper in their projects of wickedness, and therefore they are said to stretch out the hand against God.
Secondly, Mans stretching out his hand, 1speaks the confidence of a man, that he shall carry all before him, and win the day; it is usuall with contenders, especially with Souldiers, before they joyne Battell, to stretch their hands out, to draw and brandish their Swords, in token both of their courage to fight, and of their confidence to prevaile. Obstinate sinners are full of false hopes that they shall obtaine what they designe, and prosper in their projects of wickednesse, and therefore they are sayd to stretch out the hand against God.
- 1Extendere manum est habitus considentis & potentiam viresque ostendentis.
Thirdly, Stretching out the hand, is a posture of pride and impudence; pride is written upon a stretched-out-hand. To sin presumptuously,1 is in the Original to sin with a high hand (Numb. 15.30.) The Septuagint render that place, The soul ⟨p. 128⟩that in the hand of pride thinks so, shall be cut off: The Chaldee Paraphrase gives it thus; He that sins with an uncovered head; An uncovered head is an argument of boldness, and that he who acts, cares not who sees him. Modesty causeth us to hang down, or cover the head, when we have done ill, and shame makes us cover the head when we receive evil, or are punished (