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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
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.
Hence Note.
That the most substantial of earthly things are of small or no continuance: More particularly,
That the most substantiall of earthly things are of small or no continuance: More particularly,
That ill gotten goods are not lasting, or long-lived: Sometimes they melt away, and dye in the same hands that got them; they always dye and melt away in some of their hands, for whom they were gotten. There is no tack in their estate, in whom there is no Justice. That which is gathered by the unrighteousness of man, shall be scattered by the wrath of God. As the little which a righteous man hath is better, so it is surer then the great riches of many wicked. Sin makes no provision ⟨p. 158⟩at all for the soul, and it makes very ill-provision for the body. The title by which we hold worldly things, is more considerable then worldly things themselves. To hold in Capite from Christ is as the purest so the strongest Tenure: Only he who continues the same for ever, and changes not, can give continuance to that which is changeable.
That ill gotten goods are not lasting, or long-lived: Sometimes they melt away, and dye in the same hands that got them; they alwayes dye and melt away in some of their hands, for whom they were gotten. There is no tack in their estate, in whom there is no Justice. That which is gathered by the unrighteousnesse of man, shall be scattered by the wrath of God. As the little which a righteous man hath is better, so it is surer then the great riches of many wicked. Sin makes no provision ⟨p. 158⟩