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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 15 › Verse 31
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.
These words contain the dehortation; here are three terms to be explained.
These words containe the dehortation; here are three termes to be explained.
First, What is meant by being deceived. Secondly, What by trusting. Thirdly, What we are to understand by Vanity.
Let not him that is deceived.
The Original word signifies, either the turning of the foot, or the turning of the heart, or both out of the way (Psal. 119.176.1) I have gone astray, like a lost Sheep: That is, I have been deceived, and so have gone out of the way of thy holy Commandments. Satan is an ill guide, and our hearts are no better: He that follows either, quickly looseth himself: And until God seeketh us up (as David prays in the next words) we cannot find our way when we are once out of it (