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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.
Man is but in a perishing condition while he is in this world.
As all the things of the world are, so is man, while he abideth (if I may say he abideth) in this world. Christ earnestly exhorts (John 6.27.) Labour not for the meat that perisheth. Why should we labour, that is, set our selves with our whole strength and might to pursue perishing things, seeing we our selves are perishing? ⟨p. 598⟩The more perishing we are, the more reason we have to look after and labour for those things which do not, which cannot perish. When the Apostle saith (1 Pet: 1.18.) We are not redeemed with corruptible things from our vain conversation, &c. He doth not instance in flowers or fruits of the earth, which quickly rot, but in gold and silver, which are the most durable and lasting metals; even these are corruptible; but we our selves as to this bodily life, are corruptible, not only as gold and silver, but as the most fading flowers and summer fruits of the earth.
As all the things of the world are, so is man, while he abideth (if I may say he abideth) in this world. Christ earnestly exhorts (John 6.27.) Labour not for the meat that perisheth. Why should we labour, that is, set our selves with our whole strength and might to pursue perishing things, seeing we our selves are perishing? ⟨p. 598⟩The more perishing we are, the more reason we have to looke after and labour for those things which doe not, which cannot perish. When the Apostle saith (1 Pet: 1.18.) We are not redeemed with corruptible things from our vaine conversation, &c. He doth not instance in flowers or fruits of the earth, which quickly rot, but in gold and silver, which are the most durable and lasting metalls; even these are corruptible; but we our selves as to this bodyly life, are corruptible, not only as gold and silver, but as the most fading flowers and summer fruits of the earth.