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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 29
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But suppose he get riches, yet he cannot keep them; The wages which he earns is put into a bag with holes, or pierced through, all's gone (Hag. 1.6.) Carnal men are like leaking Vessels to the Word of God, they (as the Apostle cautions Believers lest at any time they should (Heb. 2.1.) always let it run out. Now as they let out what they have heard of the Word of God, so God lets out what they have got of the World: He makes all the Vessels which hold their earthly substance leaky: So it follows.
But suppose he get riches, yet he cannot keep them; The wages which he earnes is put into a bagg with holes, or pierced through, all's gone (Hag. 1.6.) Carnall men are like leaking Vessells to the Word of God, they (as the Apostle cautions Beleevers lest at any time they should (Heb. 2.1.) alwayes let it run out. Now as they let out what they have heard of the Word of God, so God lets out what they have got of the World: He makes all the Vessells which hold their earthly substance leaky: So it follows.
2. Neither shall his substance continue.
This is his second woe:1 The word which we render Substance, signifies also Power, and strength; because riches impower and strengthen men to do great things; but how strong and substantial soever they are in the opinion of men, their time is but short, They shall not continue; and this ariseth two ways.