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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
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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.
- 1Implere dies ad longam faelicemque senectam pertinet vel denotat illam aetatis maturitatem, quae non annorum numero; sed pietatis perfectione definitur.
Besides, a wicked man never fills his days, though he be full of days; he that is not prepared for death (how old soever he is) dyes before he is ripe: he is ripe for destruction, but he is neither ripe nor fit for death: The youngest Saint that dyes, dyes ripe, though he dye before he come to that estate,1 wherein nature useth to crop men off; yet, he (as the Apostle speaks, Ephes. 4.13