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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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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.
The Prophet Jonah makes the word which we here translate vanity,1 the Epethite of that which is commonly translated vanity (Jon. 3.8.) They that observe lying vanities: Idolls are vanity, and a lye, because though they can doe no good at all, yet they promise much: Riches are vanity, and a lye, because they cannot doe 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 owne engagements. Money and riches have payd many a mans debts, and enough of them will pay any mans debts; but they have never payd their owne debts, no more then ⟨p. 177⟩Idols have, and therefore they justly beare the brand of this reproach, Lying vanities: That they are so, appeares clearely in two particulars.