A35535:1836
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, The word signifieth to profit, so we translate;1 And it profiteth me not. Other Scriptures comply with this sense (Esther 3.8.) Haman in his malicious and envious suggestions against the Jews, tells the King, It is not for the Kings profit to suffer them to continue. He useth the same word again (Hest: 5.13.) where after he had reported all the great things that he enjoyed, he concludes; What doth all this profit me? or all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the Kings gate? ⟨p. 454⟩Thus here, saith the sick man, I have sinned, And it profited me not, or I have got nothing by it: And when he saith, it profited me not; we are to expound it by a usual figure in Scripture, whereby more is intended then is expressed, so that, it profiteth me not, is, it had been very detrimental, dangerous, and deadly to me. I feel and smart under the sad issues of my sin, my perverting that which was right hath done me (though I have had but my right) much wrong. I have sinned, and it profited me not.
Secondly, The word signifieth to profit, so we translate;1 And it profiteth me not. Other Scriptures comply with this sence (Hester 3.8.) Haman in his malicious and envious suggestions against the Jews, tells the King, It is not for the Kings profit to suffer them to continue. He useth the same word againe (Hest: 5.13.) where after he had reported all the great things that he enjoyed, he concludes; What doth all this profit me? or all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the Kings gate? ⟨p. 454⟩Thus here, saith the sick man, I have sinned, And it profited me not, or I have got nothing by it: And when he saith, it profited me not; we are to expound it by a usuall figure in Scripture, whereby more is intended then is expressed, so that, it profiteth me not, is, it had been very detrimentall, dangerous, and deadly to me. I feel and smart under the sad issues of my sin, my perverting that which was right hath done me (though I have had but my right) much wrong. I have sinned, and it profited me not.