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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.
as the mouth tasteth meat.
In the 12th Chapter we had the same expression, and therefore I shall not stay upon it here. Only there the sentence is made up by a particle Copulative; The ear trieth words, and the mouth tasteth meat. Here by a particle of likeness; The ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. There is a fair analogy or ⟨p. 500⟩proportion, between the ear and the mouth, in discriminating their proper objects. Hearing and tasting, are two of those five excellent useful senses which God hath planted in the nature of man, the other three are seeing, smelling, feeling. Here we have a comparison between two of the five senses; look what the mouth is to meat, the same is the ear to words. In the mouth the sense of tasting is placed as a Judge to discern between good and bad, savoury and unsavoury meats; and the ear of a man which receiveth words, is accompanied with an understanding, whereby we apprehend what is true, what is false, what is to be approved, and what refused. And the comparison runs yet more clearly, while we consider, that as the food which the mouth receiveth is prepared for the help of our natural or bodily life, so the words of instruction which the ear receiveth are prepared for the food of our souls, and the maintaining of our spiritual life.
In the 12th Chapter we had the same expression, and therefore I shall not stay upon it here. Only there the sentence is made up by a particle Copulative; The ear tryeth words, and the mouth tasteth meat. Here by a particle of likeness; The eare tryeth words, as the mouth tasteth meat. There is a faire analogy or ⟨p. 500⟩proportion, between the eare and the mouth, in discriminating their proper obiects. Hearing and tasting, are two of those five excellent usefull senses which God hath planted in the nature of man, the other three are seeing, smelling, feeling. Here we have a comparison between two of the five senses; look what the mouth is to meat, the same is the ear to words. In the mouth the sense of tasting is placed as a Judge to discerne between good and bad, savory and unsavory meates; and the eare of a man which receiveth words, is accompanied with an understanding, whereby we apprehend what is true, what is false, what is to be approved, and what refused. And the comparison runs yet more clearely, while we consider, that as the food which the mouth receiveth is prepared for the helpe of our natural or bodily life, so the words of instruction which the eare receiveth are prepared for the food of our soules, and the maintaining of our spirituall life.