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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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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.) is come to the fullness of the stature of Christ.
Besides, a wicked man never fills his dayes, though he be full of dayes; he that is not prepared for death (how old soever he is) dyes before he is rype: he is rype for destruction, but he is neither rype nor fit for death: The youngest Saint that dyes, dyes rype, 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.) is come to the fulnesse of the stature of Christ.
- 1Pii licet aetate juvenes, senes sunt moribus.
Secondly, Referring these words unto the estate of a wicked man, it shall be accomplished, or cut off before the time; that is, his pomp, and greatness, all that he hath gotten together (of which he spake in the precedent part of the Chapter) shall be scattered suddenly.
Secondly, Referring these words unto the estate of a wicked man, it shall be accomplished, or cut off before the time; that is, his pomp, and greatnesse, all that he hath gotten together (of which he spake in the precedent part of the Chapter) shall be scattered suddenly.