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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 32
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.
To be accomplished before the time, is not to be accomplished at all, it notes rather perdition then perfection. The word which we translate to accomplish, signifies also to cut off, as we put in the Margin of our Bibles, It shall be accomplished, or cut off before his time: The Vulgar translation fills up the sense thus, Before his days can be filled, he shall perish.
To be accomplished before the time, is not to be accomplished at all, it notes rather perdition then perfection. The word which we translate to accomplish, signifies also to cut off, as we put in the Margin of our Bibles, It shall be accomplished, or cut off before his time: The Vulgar translation fills up the sense thus, Before his dayes can be filled, he shall perish.
As the Relative looks to the wicked man himself, Observe.
As the Relative lookes to the wicked man himselfe, Observe.
An untimely death is the portion of a wicked man. He shall be accomplished in a day that is not his, or before his proper day. In opposition to which, Eliphaz had promised, Chap. 5. That a godly man shall come like sheaf of Corn into the Barn, fully ripe: Now saith he, This wicked man shall be like untimely fruit, accomplished, cut off, and perishing before his ⟨p. 187⟩time. We have such an Expression (Eccl. 7.17.) Be not righteous over much, neither make thy self over-wise; why shouldest thou destroy thy self? Be not over much wicked (not that there is any mediocrity in wickedness, or that a man can be wicked in due proportion, but saith he, take heed of high actings in wickedness) why shouldest thou dye before thy time? Some wickednesses lye close, men live and continue in them long unseen; others are so open and abominable, that their actors are abnoxious to the hand of Justice: He that is wicked overmuch, that is, extremely wicked, shall be cut off some way or other before his time.