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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 15 › Verse 35
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.
The word will bear any of, or all the three translations.1 They bring forth vanity, a lye, iniquity. They who conceive mischief, may bring forth any thing but what is good. Those three words may serve the same thing; every vanity is a lye, and any lye is vanity, and iniquity is both lye and vanity. The persons of whom Eliphaz discourseth are said to bring forth vanity, on these three grounds.
The word will beare any of, or all the three translations.1 They bring forth vanity, a lye, iniquity. They who conceive mischeife, may bring forth any thing but what is good. Those three words may serve the same thing; every vanity is a lye, and any lye is vanity, and iniquity is both lye and vanity. The persons of whom Eliphaz discourseth are sayd to bring forth vanity, on these three grounds.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Vanitat mendacium perversitas.〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Vanitat mendacium perversitas.
First, Because they sometimes bring forth no fruit at all; they are conceiving mischief, but they can make nothing of it, their conceptions end in abortions; they devise and plot, but all is hatching of wind: The Church is so expressed, though in a different case (Isa. 26.17, 18.) Like as a Woman with Child near the time of her delivery is in pain, and cries out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight O Lord; We have been with child, we have been in pain: The Church had conceptions for good, she hoped that the Lord would have done some great thing for her; yet after her conception, and travel, see what she brings forth, We have been in pain, and brought forth wind; that is, nothing at all, it proved a mere tympany; for so he explains it, We have not wrought any deliverance in the earth, neither have the Inhabitants of the World fallen; that is, we have not obtained that deliverance that we hoped for in the earth, neither have our Enemies (who are called by the Prophet, The Inhabitants of the World) been subdued under our power; they have not fallen. Now as the Church and people of God sometimes are disappointed in their expectations; they conceive, yet bring forth wind, not that Man-child of mercy which was expected: So, much more do wicked men, after all their pleasing conceptions, and pangs of travel, they bring forth vanity; and their vessel is marred upon the wheel.