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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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Hence Observe.
That as there is no worldly perfection of any long continuance, so the perfection of wicked men is of shortest continuance: Athanasius said of Julian the Apostate, when he was in the height, in the very zenith and perfection of earthly felicity, having ascended the Imperial Throne, and giving the Law to a great part of the then known World, He is but a little cloud, 1he will soon vanish. And indeed his glory and the perfection of it did not continue, for when he was but thirty years old, in that prime of his natural course and constitution, he was out off; his power could not protect his Person, nor prolong his perfection on the earth.
That as there is no worldly perfection of any long continuance, so the perfection of wicked men is of shortest continuance: Athenasius sayd of Julian the Apostate, when he was in the height, in the very zenith and perfection of earthly felicity, having ascended the Impereall Throne, and giving the Law to a great part of the then knowne World, He is but a little cloud, 1he will soon vanish. And indeed his glory and the perfection of it did not continue, for when he was but thirty yeares old, in that prime of his naturall course and constitution, he was out off; his power could not protect his Person, nor prolong his perfection on the earth.
- 1Nubecula est, cito transibit.