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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.
Note, Thirdly.
Good men sometimes speak worse then they mean.
Good men sometimes speak worse then they meane.
Job never thought it was no profit to serve God, yet he had let fall words which might bear that gloss. As wicked men often speak better then they mean; They have golden words in their mouths, when there is nothing but dross in their hearts; their words are smoother then oil, yet they are drawn swords; their words sound well, while they wound deep, (now as a carnal man speaks often better then he means, and sometimes speaks purposely the best when he means worst) so a godly man speaks sometimes worse then he means, or he may speak ill when he intends nothing but good. Holy David (which comes up fully to the sense of what Job is taxed for saying here) said (and what could he speak more unholily) (Psal: 73.15.) Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, &c. What language was here? would one think to hear David foul his mouth with such words as these? would one think, that such a word could have dropped from the mouth of David, whose mouth used to drop like an honey-comb, & whose lips were wont to be like a tree of life feeding many? yet David in temptation, that is, in great affliction (for he there complains that he was chastened every morning) spake thus with his tongue to the grief of his heart a little after. The tongue is an unruly member, (as the Apostle James saith, Chap: 3.8.) The tongue can no man tame; we need a great command upon the heart to ⟨p. 548⟩bridle the tongue, and tame that unruly beast. Many a good man hath been over-borne with his tongue. That little member hath sometimes crushed both soul and body very sorely. Jobs tongue fell heavily upon him.