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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 27
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The Scripture speaks thus, not as if fatness had any moral evil in it, or as if leanness had any moral good in it. Fatness doth not discommend us, nor doth leanness commend us to God; yea a man lean in body, may have the worst fatness, he may be proud, swollen and puffed up in spirit; and • man fat in body, may have the best leanness, much self-emptiness, and poverty of spirit. But because they who have abundance, and grow fat with the Creature, are tempted to forgetfulness of, and rebellion against God; and because a body overburdened with flesh and fat, renders the mind more indisposed to holy and spiritual activity; and usually they who bestow most care and cost in pampering their bodies, go with pined, starved, and lean souls; therefore fatness hears ill in Scripture.1
The Scripture speakes thus, not as if fatnesse had any morall evill in it, or as if leanenesse had any morall good in it. Fatnesse doth not discommend us, nor doth leannesse commend us to God; yea a man leane in body, may have the worst fatnesse, he may be proud, swolne and puft up in spirit; and • man fat in body, may have the best leannesse, much selfe-emptinesse, and poverty of spirit. But because they who have abundance, and grow fat with the Creature, are tempted to forgetfulnesse of, and rebellion against God; and because a body overburdened with flesh and fat, renders the minde more indisposed to holy and spirituall activity; and usually they who bestow most care and cost in pampering their bodies, goe with pined, starved, and leane soules; therefore fatnesse heares ill in Scripture.1
- 1Hoc Aegyptii inuere videbantur, dumb s• cerdotes Isiaci solerent dare Api Bovi quem colebant potum ex quodam puteo non autem ex Nilo, quia ejus aqua pota creditur pinguedinem carnisque magnum facere incrementum. Plutarch. Tract. de Iside, &c. Iberi etiam & Galli antiqui zonae mensuram habebant, quam si mulier, quae gravida non esset capere non posset probro magno afficiebatur. Alex. ab Alex. l. 2. c. 25.Hoc Aegyptii inuere videbantur, dum s• cerdotes Isiaci solerent dare Api Bovi quem colebant potum ex quodam puteo non autem ex Nilo, quia ejus aqua pota creditur pinguedinem carnisque magnum facere incrementum. Plutarch. Tract. de Iside, &c. Iberi etiam & Galli antiqui zonae mensuram habebant, quam si mulier, quae gravida non esset capere non posset probro magno afficiebatur. Alex. ab Alex. l. 2. c. 25.