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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.
Elihu like a cunning Orator often stirred up his auditors to attention, and made frequent insinuations to wind himself and what he had to say into their good opinion. Here he bespake not the promiscuous multitude or common sort of hearers, but wise men, or men of understanding, such as are most fit to judge the weight and strength of those arguments and reasons, by which any point is proved and confirmed.
Elihu like a cunning Orator often stirr'd up his auditors to attention, and made frequent insinuations to winde himselfe and what he had to say into their good opinion. Here he bespake not the promiscuous multitude or common sort of hearers, but wise men, or men of understanding, such as are most fit to judge the weight and strength of those arguments and reasons, by which any poynt is proved and confirmed.
Hearken unto me, ye men of understanding.
The Hebrew is, ye men of heart, so the Margin hath it; As the heart is the principle of natural life▪ so the principles & powers ⟨p. 551⟩of the rational life are often ascribed to the heart. Job told his friends (Chap. 12.3.) I have a heart (we render, I have an understanding) as well as you; 1and in good Authors a hearty man signifies not only a man of courage, or a man of spirit, but a man of knowledge and understanding, a man more then ordinarily wise, a man of the highest Elevation for wisdom, is called a hearty man. Naturalists have ascribed the moving of several passions, to several internal parts of the body; laughter (say they) riseth from the spleen, anger from the Gall, love from the liver, but to the heart they give more then a passion, understanding, which is the noblest faculty of reason. Here Elihu calls upon men of heart, or of understanding to hearken to him.