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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
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.
First, The folly and Irrationality of pride, renders it odious to God; nothing is more odious to a wise man then folly, how odious then is pride to the most wise God! When Paul did any thing which had but a show of pride in it, though he did it only upon Constraint, yet he calls himself fool for doing it (2 Cor: 12.11.) I am become a fool in glorying, ye have compelled me. Doth not this intimate, that in Pauls opinion, all proud self-gloriers and boasters are fools, that is, such as act below common sense or reason. In the Hebrew language, the same word that signifies boasting and pride, signifies folly and foolishness. The empty vessel yields the greatest sound; and they that make so great a noise of themselves, are usually nothing else but a Great noise themselves, at least they unavoidably raise suspicion of themselves, that they are but empty vessels, or shallow rivers. This was Solomons conclusion (Pro: 25.27.) For men to search their own glory is no glory; that is, a man obscures himself by self-glorying. How foolish, how irrational a thing is it for any man to glory proudly, when as by doing so he obscures that which is the chiefest glory of man as man, his reason; and seems to put himself to the question, whether he be a reasonable creature yea or no.
First, The folly and Irrationallity of pride, renders it odious to God; nothing is more odious to a wise man then folly, how odious then is pride to the most wise God! When Paul did any thing which had but a shew of pride in it, though he did it only upon Constraint, yet he calls himselfe foole for doing it (2 Cor: 12.11.) I am become a foole in glorying, ye have compelled me. Doth not this intimate, that in Pauls opinion, all proud selfe-gloriers and boasters are fooles, that is, such as act below common sense or reason. In the Hebrew language, the same word that signifies boasting and pride, signifies folly and foolishnesse. The empty vessell yeilds the greatest sound; and they that make so great a noise of themselves, are usually nothing else but a Great noyse themselves, at least they unavoydably rayse suspition of themselves, that they are but empty vessells, or shallow rivers. This was Solomons conclusion (Pro: 25.27.) For men to search their owne glory is no glory; that is, a man obscures himselfe by selfe-glorying. How foolish, how irrationall a thing is it for any man to glory proudly, when as by doing so he obscures that which is the chiefest glory of man as man, his reason; and seemes to put himselfe to the question, whether he be a reasonable creature yea or no.