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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.
Or, Let him not believe in vanity: Trusting is an act of faith,1 and though a man may believe, and not trust; yet no man can trust, who doth not believe. We translate the word not as signifying only bare believing, but as it reaches that higher act of trusting: He that is most deceived, is most apt to trust that which will deceive him more; and gives not only his consent, but confidence to that which either is not at all, or is that least which it pretends to be, fit to be trusted, Vanity.
Or, Let him not beleeve in vanity: Trusting is an act of faith,1 and though a man may beleeve, and not trust; yet no man can trust, who doth not beleeve. We translate the word not as signifying onely bare beleiving, but as it reaches that higher act of trusting: He that is most deceived, is most apt to trust that which will deceive him more; and gives not onely his consent, but confidence to that which either is not at all, or is that least which it pretends to be, fit to be trusted, Vanity.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Credet, ne credat in vanitatem.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Credet, ne credat in vanitatem.
Let him not trust in vanity.
The word which we render Vanity, 1is not Habel used by Solomon (