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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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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 (John 6.27.) This covering of our selves with fatness, and makings collops of fat, the Apostle reproves in those, Whose God was their belly (Phil. 3.19.) and in those who served not the Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly (Rom. 16.18.) They who serve their belly, as they should serve God, make a god of it; and they who serve their belly at all do not serve Christ at all. We may provide for the belly, but we must not serve it; and they who do so, deserve rather to be called Epicures then Christians. That's sinful fatness which is got upon terms of slavery, or service to the belly: yea, a man that is intentive upon that question, What shall I eat? and careful how to feed his flesh, though he do not grow fat by it, yet he shows himself full of sin by it. The design of such is for the flesh, though their flesh do not thrive under that design. As a man may be very covetous though he continue poor and lean in purse; so a man may be very luxurious, and a great servant to Bacchus, and Belly-cheer, though he continue lean and poor in body.