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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.
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.
Againe, The word which we translate recompence, signifies a change, or the exchange which is made of one thing for another: While Job exalts the value and excellency of wisedome above all created excellencies, he saith (Chap. 28.17.) The Gold and the Chrystall cannot equall it, and the exchange of it shall not be for jewells of fine Gold.
So some render it here, Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity, 1for vanity shall be his change: Whensoever he changeth, he shall change into vanity, or when he hath driven a trade in sinful vanity, to the highest; the best exchange which the Merchandise thereof yields him, is miserable vanity: Vanity can produce nothing to us but vanity: The effect is not better then the cause, nor the fruit then the Tree; and that which we receive in exchange, though it may be of another kind, yet it is of no better value then that we give in exchange.
So some render it here, Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity, 1for vanity shall be his change: Whensoever he changeth, he shall change into vanity, or when he hath driven a trade in sinfull vanity, to the highest; the best exchange which the Merchandize thereof yeelds him, is miserable vanity: Vanity can produce nothing to us but vanity: The effect is not better then the cause, nor the fruit then the Tree; and that which we receive in exchange, though it may be of another kinde, yet it is of no better value then that we give in exchange.
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