A35535:1469
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.
Secondly, Take heed of priding your selves in the flesh, when your flesh (possibly unsought by you) makes a fair show; Though you have beauty, and the goodliest structure of body that ever was seen, though you have riches and honour, the highest built estate that ever was enjoyed, what have you to be proud of? will it not consume and moulder away? may it not melt like a snow-ball, or like wax before the fire? be not proud of any thing called flesh, how goodly a sight soever it is to th• world, for in a little, in a very little time, there may be nothing of flesh left in sight. His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen.
Secondly, Take heed of priding your selves in the flesh, when your flesh (possibly unsought by you) makes a faire shew; Though you have beauty, and the goodliest structure of body that ever was seene, though you have riches and honour, the highest built estate that ever was enjoyed, what have you to be proud of? will it not consume and moulder away? may it not melt like a snow-ball, or like wax before the fire? be not proud of any thing called flesh, how goodly a sight soever it is to th• world, for in a little, in a very little time, there may be nothing of flesh left in sight. His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seene.
Thirdly, Be not over-careful to provide for your flesh, the outward man, this body, or any thing that concerns it. As the Apostle utterly forbids us to make provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof (Rom: 13.14.) that is, those lusts that are exercised in the flesh; so, be not much careful, not at all unduly ⟨p. 355⟩careful to make provision for your flesh, to satisfy the necessities of it; for 'tis but a perishing thing. Be not careful what you shall eat and drink, and wherewith you shall be clothed, as Christ himself adviseth (Math: 6.) The flesh that you prepare for your flesh, is not more perishing then the flesh for which it is prepared. Meats for the belly and the belly for meats, but God shall destroy both it and them (1 Cor: 6.13.) It will not be long before there shall be an end both of the meat that is eaten, and of eating meat.