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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.
Quarrellers dye by the Sword, Drunkards dye by surfeit, Adulterers decay into filthy diseases, Sorcerers are killed by the Devil, Malefactors of all sorts are cut off by the sentence of the Magistrate. Most desire to live long, and yet they take a course to make their lives short; they forget that short way to long life (Psal. 34.12.)
Quarrellers dye by the Sword, Drunkards dye by surfet, Adulterers decay into filthy diseases, Sorcerers are killed by the Devill, Malefactors of all sorts are cut off by the sentence of the Magistrate. Most desire to live long, and yet they take a course to make their lives short; they forget that short way to long life (Psal. 34.12.)
That promise (Isa. 65.20.) stands opposite to this threatening, There shall be no more there an infant of days, 1nor an old man that hath not filled his days: A good man fills his days, a wicked man shall be accomplished, or there shall be an end of him before his day; both, before that day which he would live to, according to the course of his desire, and before that day which he might live unto, according to the course of nature.
That promise (Isa. 65.20.) stands opposite to this threatning, There shall be no more there an infant of dayes, 1nor an old man that hath not filled his dayes: A good man fills his dayes, a wicked man shall be accomplished, or there shall be an end of him before his day; both, before that day which he would live to, according to the course of his desire, and before that day which he might live unto, according to the course of nature.