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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.
Who can imagine, but that they are full of wisdom, that they abound in knowledge and spiritual understanding, who abounding in days and years, have abounded also in means of knowledge.
Who can imagine, but that they are full of wisdome, that they abound in knowledge and spirituall understanding, who abounding in dayes and yeares, have abounded also in meanes of knowledge.
Note Secondly.
As old men should abound in knowledge, so they should approve themselves ready to teach the ignorant.
I said days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. 'Tis a duty incumbent upon them who have learned much, to teach much. To convey wisdom and knowledge to others is most proper to such, as well as most ornamental, and honourable. To be knowing our selves is a great mercy, and to help others to the knowledge of what we know is a great duty; we loose one special end of knowing, if we know only for our selves. To communicate and diffuse our knowledge to others is the noblest way of using it, and the best way of improving it, and that in a double respect; First, it is the best way of improving it, as to increase; Secondly, it is the best way of improving it, as to reward. The more we give out our knowledge, the more we shall have of it, and the more we shall have for it both from God and men. The Apostle saith of a Gospel Minister (