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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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Lastly, The Creature promiseth to continue with us. Riches tell us, that though Father and Mother forsake us, yet they will not, though Wife and Children forsake us, yet they will not; they make us believe that they will stick closer to us, then Christ himself, and yet they are upon the wing presently, they fly away as the Eagle, and are gone out of sight, they do not only perish in the using, but perish from our use.
Lastly, The Creature promiseth to continue with us. Riches tell us, that though Father and Mother forsake us, yet they will not, though Wife and Children forsake us, yet they will not; they make us beleeve that they will stick closer to us, then Christ himselfe, and yet they are upon the wing presently, they flye away as the Eagle, and are gone out of sight, they doe not onely perish in the using, but perish from our use.
Is not all this and a thousand times more, which might be said of their lying, and vanity, enough, and more then enough to justify those titles which the Spirit of God hath bestowed upon them, that they are vanity and a lye, or as Jonah calls them, Lying vanities.
Is not all this and a thousand times more, which might be sayd of their lying, and vanity, enough, and more then enough to justifie those titles which the Spirit of God hath bestowed upon them, that they are vanity and a lye, or as Jonah calls them, Lying vanities.
And yet (to close the point) we must remember that creature-riches are not a lye, nor deceitful in themselves. There's no more deceit in the greatest abundance of Gold and Silver, then there is in a wholesome savoury piece of bread. Riches are not vain and deceitful, as our hearts are said to be deceitful (