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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.
It may imply three things; First, the frequency of his scorning, he doth it commonly, he is at scorning as often as at drinking; Secondly, the content which he was supposed to take in scorning, water cooleth and refresheth the heated and wearied body: Thirdly, it may note the easiness or naturalness of it to him. To drink is natural to man, it puts him to no pains nor study. We say proverbially of that which a man doth without trouble; He doth it as easily as he drinks. But of this word drinking and drinking like water, the reader may see more upon those words (Chap: 15.16.) Man drinketh iniquity like water.
It may imply three things; First, the frequency of his scorning, he doth it commonly, he is at scorning as often as at drinking; Secondly, the content which he was supposed to take in scorning, water cooleth and refresheth the heated and wearied body: Thirdly, it may note the easiness or naturallness of it to him. To drinke is naturall to man, it puts him to no paines nor study. We say proverbially of that which a man doth without trouble; He doth it as easily as he drinkes. But of this word drinking and drinking like water, the reader may see more upon those words (Chap: 15.16.) Man drinketh iniquity like water.
Once more, whereas Elihu saith of Job, He drinketh scorning like water.
Some have made a critical observation or distinction about it; Elihu doth not say, he drinketh scorning like wine, but like water; They who are provoked or led on to sin by the delight and sweetness which they find in sin, are said to drink it like wine (Prov: 4.17.) They drink the wine of violence; or they drink ⟨p. 536⟩violence like wine. It goeth down sweetly and pleasantly; But (say they) such as sin, not out of pleasure but out of will or out of an affected maliciousness, are said to drink iniquity like water, which hath little pleasure in it, little sweetness or taste in it. There's small savour in water comparatively to wine and other delicate or delicious liquors. So that (according to this notion) they drink iniquity like water, who sin for sins sake. And indeed some are so delighted in sin it self, that they will sin in that which yields them no delight. The very act of doing evil is more contentfull to them, then any fruit or consequent of it. But we need not stay in this nicety, the general sense falls hard enough upon Job, to drink scorning like water, is to be much and often in scorning. Water is the cheapest liquor, and of most common use; every man can go to the price of that which costs nothing (in most places) but the labour of taking it up. What man is like Job, that drinketh scorning like water?