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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.
I said days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
I said dayes should speak, and multitude of yeares should teach wisdome.
Elihu reckons the age of aged men, by multitude of years; this he doth only to heighten the matter; what wisdom might he not expect from a multitude of years? that is, from such as had lived a multitude of years. Certainly thought Elihu, they will Teach wisdom.
Elihu reckons the age of aged men, by multitude of yeares; this he doth only to highten the matter; what wisdome might he not expect from a multitude of yeares? that is, from such as had lived a multitude of yeares. Certainly thought Elihu, they will Teach wisdome.
There is a twofold wisdom; First, that which is merely rational; Secondly, that which is spiritual; or there is first, a common; secondly, an holy wisdom; Elihu expected wisdom of both sorts, but chiefly of the latter, from multitude of years. He expected they would teach the wisdom which the Spirit of God had taught them;1 that wisdom which consists in the true knowledge of God and of our selves, that wisdom which is from above, that which man hath not from himself, nor is taught him by days or years, by use or experience only. And it was very probable, that they who from their youth had been instructed in the things of God, being grown old, should also be grown further in this wisdom, and riper in this sort of knowledge. And therefore Elihu spake according to the rule of right reason, when he judged that those three aged men had attained to a very high degree of divine light. Such is the goodness of God to his people, that usually they grow in grace and knowledge as they grow in years; For though God is Debtor to no man (but Creditor to all men) and though old age in it self considered, deserves nothing of God, yea is not only undeserving, but (because sin multiplies as our days do) ill deserving, yet as Christ saith, To him that hath, (that is, who useth and improveth what he hath) more shall be given; And therefore though true wisdom be a free gift, and is infused and wrought by the Spirit of God, yet we may in probability, and ought according to charity, judge, that they who have most days, have also most wisdom. Though wisdom be not entailed upon old age, yet there we are most likely to find it. I said multitude of years should teach wisdom.