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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
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.
He covereth his face with fatness, he makes collops, &c.
He covereth his face with fatnesse, he makes collops, &c.
He doth not say, Because he is fat, but because he covers his face with fatness, &c. That is, he sets his heart upon his belly, and makes it his business to pamper his body. He is active, yea full of activity in getting this cover, or mask of fatness upon his face; and this mask discovers the naughtiness of his heart.
He doth not say, Because he is fat, but because he covers his face with fatnesse, &c. That is, he sets his heart upon his belly, and makes it his businesse to pamper his body. He is active, yea full of activity in getting this cover, or mask of fatnesse upon his face; and this mask discovers the naughtinesse of his heart.
Hence Observe.
That it is a sign of an evil heart, or a lean soul, to intend the flesh, or to study the satisfying of the bodily appetite. A carnal man gives himself to deliciousness; his greatest labour is about that, for which Christ forbids our labour, The meat that perisheth (