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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.
Again, The notation of the word Belial, 1imports a person of no use, or altogether unprofitable, a man that is good for nothing, a mere unthrift, or spendthrift, a man that neither doth good to himself, nor to any others; as if he were born only to spoil and devour all that is before him, as if he came into the world to eat other mens labours, and not to labour that he might have to eat. Christ calleth the idle or slothful servant, an unprofitable servant, (Matth. 25.30.) and to be an unprofitable servant, is to be a son of Belial; one that hath no good in his heart, nor doth any good in his place, neither in his private nor public capacity; neither in his own family, nor in the neighbourhood, and Nation where he lives. No man is born for himself, nor ought any man to live to himself. It were better not to live, then not to be doing good while we live. He that liveth only to profit himself, liveth to little purpose; to what purpose then doth he live, whose life is altogether unprofitable to himself? And indeed, he that is not in some respect or other a common good, or good to others, cannot be good, nor do any true good to himself; yet such is the wicked man represented under the notion of this Text. Seeing then there are such bad and base significancies in the bowels of this word; is it sufferable by a King? Is it fit to say to a King, thou art Belial, or wicked?
Again, The notation of the word Belial, 1imports a person of no use, or altogether unprofitable, a man that is good for nothing, a meer unthrift, or spendthrift, a man that neither doth good to himself, nor to any others; as if he were born only to spoil and devour all that is before him, as if he came into the world to eat other mens labours, and not to labour that he might have to eat. Christ calleth the idle or slothful servant, an unprofitable servant, (Matth. 25.30.) and to be an unprofitable servant, is to be a son of Belial; one that hath no good in his heart, nor doth any good in his place, neither in his private nor publick capacity; neither in his own family, nor in the neighbourhood, and Nation where he lives. No man is born for himself, nor ought any man to live to himself. It were better not to live, then not to be doing good while we live. He that liveth only to profit himself, liveth to little purpose; to what purpose then doth he live, whose life is altogether unprofitable to himself? And indeed, he that is not in some respect or other a common good, or good to others, cannot be good, nor do any true good to himself; yet such is the wicked man represented under the notion of this Text. Seeing then there are such bad and base significancies in the bowels of this word; is it sufferable by a King? Is it fit to say to a King, thou art Belial, or wicked?