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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.
Observe.
Scorners are the vilest sort of men.
What man is like Job, who drinketh scorning? Not to do good is sinful, but either to scorn that which is good or those that are good is far more sinful. That man is gone his furthest length, or ascended to the highest step of sin, who turneth scorner, or ⟨p. 537⟩gives himself a liberty to scorn others. The first words of David speak this (Psal: 1.1.) Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. Here are three degrees of sinning; walking, standing, sitting: He that sitteth in the seat of the scornful, or hath commenced scorner, hath taken the highest degree, and is the chief Graduate in the Schools of sin. And as to sit in the seat of the scornful, is the highest degree of sinning, so they that are got into that seat, care not how long they sit in it, yea, are hardly ever got out of it. So much that chiding question or expostulation of Solomon doth fully import (Prov. 1.22.) Ye scorners, how long will ye delight in scorning? As if he had said, When shall it once be? will ye never have done, nor give over that trade? Scorners are therefore the worst of men, because they deride the best both of things and men (Prov: 21.24.) Proud and haughty scorner is his name, who dealeth in proud wrath. Scorners are the children of pride. A proud spirit vents it self in scorning. Pride doth not appear so much in apparel, in gay clothes and new fangled fashions (all which are often used as flags of pride and vanity) nor doth pride appear so much in praising our selves (though there it appeareth much) as it doth in scorning others. Proud scorner is his name. And as the scorner is a proud despiser of others, so a quarrelsome contender with others, and till he is separated from men, there is nothing but separation, no peace among men (Prov: 22.10.) Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea strife and reproach shall cease; which plainly intimateth, that strife cannot go out till the scorner be cast out. And therefore Solomon (Pro: 24.9.) calleth the scorner an abomination to man. Thus the Scripture sets the scorner among sinners of the chiefest rank and first form; I may say, he is of the first three, if not the first of that three. Therefore take heed how ye drink scorning, especially take heed it be not your mornings draught;