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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
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.
The Creature is most vain to those who trust it.
The Creature is most vaine to those who trust it.
The Creature is a vain thing in his hand, who believes and trusts in God, but it is exceeding vain in his hand, who trusts on it; and the more it is trusted, the more vain it is. If we make it our staff, it will be our scourge: if we lean upon it as our rock, it will run into our hands like a broken Reed: The best way to keep up our comforts in the Creature, is to keep our distance from the Creature. And they shall find most content in the World, who live furthest off it, and expect least from it. God is good, and the more we trust him, the better he is to us, yea he is not good at all to us, unless we trust him: But the best of creatures trusted to become evil, yea an Idol to us. Trust not in vanity (such are all creatures in their best estate) for vanity shall be your recompense.
The Creature is a vaine thing in his hand, who beleeves and trusts in God, but it is exceeding vaine in his hand, who trusts on it; and the more it is trusted, the more vaine it is. If we make it our staffe, it will be our scourge: if we leane upon it as our rock, it will run into our hands like a broken Reed: The best way to keep up our comforts in the Creature, is to keep our distance from the Creature. And they shall finde most content in the World, who live furthest off it, and expect least from it. God is good, and the more we trust him, the better he is to us, yea he is not good at all to us, unlesse we trust him: But the best of creatures trusted to become evill, yea an Idoll to us. Trust not in vanity (such are all creatures in their best estate) for vanity shall be your recompence.
Again, The word which we translate recompense, signifies a change, or the exchange which is made of one thing for another: While Job exalts the value and excellency of wisdom above all created excellencies, he saith (Chap. 28.17.) The Gold and the Crystal cannot equal it, and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine Gold.