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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.
The Original word signifies to wax old; 1for as when a man recovers from sickness, his flesh is said to return like the flesh of a child. So when he is under the extremity of any sickness, his flesh, as it were, waxeth old, or withereth like the flesh of an old man. Thus 'tis translated (Lam•n. 3.4.) My flesh and my skin hath he made old; that is, though I am not old in years, or how young soever I am, yet God, by many sufferings, hath made me look like an old man; I am decayed and weak. David speaking of wicked worldly men, tells us, (Psal. 49.14.) Their beauty shall consume in the grave; As death and the grave make a total and final consumption of the beauty of bad men, that is, of all that splendour and bravery wherein they lived, while they lived in the body; so pains and sicknesses do exceedingly consume the body, and eat out the flesh. As a tyrannical oppressor eats out the people under his government, in which sense this word is applied (Dan. 7.25.) Or as a garment is worn out by time and using. The flesh is often in Scripture compared to a garment, and dying to unclothing; because when we dye we put off the flesh. The garment of the flesh, that beautiful garment waxeth old and wears out apace on a sick bed. Sickness not only staineth ⟨p. 352⟩and abateth the beauty of it, but wasteth it deeply, so that, as it followeth it cannot be seen;
The Originall word signifies to wax old; 1for as when a man recovers from sicknesse, his flesh is said to returne like the flesh of a child. So when he is under the extreamity of any sicknesse, his flesh, as it were, waxeth old, or withereth like the flesh of an old man. Thus 'tis translated (Lam•n. 3.4.) My flesh and my skin hath he made old; that is, though I am not old in yeares, or how young soever I am, yet God, by many sufferings, hath made me look like an old man; I am decayed and weake. David speaking of wicked worldly men, tells us, (