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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 31
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Further, This vanity, from trusting which the deceived soul is called off by Eliphaz, is conceived to be worldly riches, and the fullest possession of the creature; these are vanity: That they are, is a common theme, and yet though it be much spoken of, it is very little believed; we are apt to over-rate the things of the World, and under-rate the things of Heaven. The creature is vanity, not only in regard of the nothingness of it, but vanity in regard of that which we call the somthingnesse of it, or the best of it.
Further, This vanity, from trusting which the deceived soule is called off by Eliphaz, is conceived to be worldly riches, and the fullest possession of the creature; these are vanity: That they are, is a common theame, and yet though it be much spoken of, it is very little beleived; we are apt to over-rate the things of the World, and under-rate the things of Heaven. The creature is vanity, not onely in regard of the nothingnesse of it, but vanity in regard of that which we call the somthingnesse of it, or the best of it.
The Prophet Jonah makes the word which we here translate vanity,1 the Epithet of that which is commonly translated vanity (Jon. 3.8.) They that observe lying vanities: Idols are vanity, and a lye, because though they can do no good at all, yet they promise much: Riches are vanity, and a lye, because they cannot do so much good as they promise. Solomon saith in his Ecclesiastes, That Money answereth all things (Chap. 8.10.) And so it doth as the value of all earthly things is made by Money, and as Money is the price of all earthly things. But though Money answereth all things, by satisfying our engagements, yet it answereth nothing to the satisfying of its own engagements. Money and riches have paid many a mans debts, and enough of them will pay any mans debts; but they have never paid their own debts, no more then ⟨p. 177⟩Idols have, and therefore they justly bear the brand of this reproach, Lying vanities: That they are so, appears clearly in two particulars.