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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 34
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A Traveller coming to Rome, and viewing many famous structures,1 and goodly houses there, asked who built them? It was answered, These are the sins of Germany; the meaning was, that the Money brought for Pardons out of Germany, built those Houses. So we may say of many fair places, and goodly dwellings, These are Bribes and Oppressions, such ⟨p. 197⟩a man built these by iniquity. Bribes may build houses, but bribe-takers cannot protect them: The Tabernacles of bribery shall be consumed.
A Traveller comming to Rome, and viewing many famous structures,1 and goodly houses there, asked who built them? It was answered, These are the sins of Germany; the meaning was, that the Money brought for Pardons out of Germany, built those Houses. So we may say of many faire places, and goodly dwellings, These are Bribes and Oppressions, such ⟨p. 197⟩a man built these by iniquity. Bribes may build houses, but bribe-takers cannot protect them: The Tabernacles of bribery shall be consumed.
- 1Haec sunt peccara Germanorum.
Hence Observe.
First, Bribery is an odious sin: That sin which is put to express all sins against our neighbours, must needs be a very odious, as well as a very comprehensive sin. God loves judgement, bribery opposeth what God loves. God commands charity, as well as judgement; and delights to see men bountiful as well as righteous: Yet charity without judgement, and bounty without righteousness, are an abomination to God. God is a God of judgement, they that are against judgement, act not only against the rule which God makes, but against the example which God gives. It is as much the honour of God, that he is a God of judgement, giving all their due; as, that he is a God of mercy, giving to all his, what they have not at all deserved.