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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.
This Text speaks of Kings and Princes; and the most of men are inferior not only to Kings, but to Princes. God hath not made man upon earth as minims in writing, all of a height; but as in the alphabet of Letters, some are longer and deeper then others; so in the Alphabet of mankind, some men are bigger and higher then others. Kings and Princes are but men, yet they are men in a great letter, or they are among men as the Aleph among the letters, which as it is first in order, so it signifies a Prince, a Chief, a Leader. And if the most wise God had not ordered such an inequality among men, how should order have been kept ⟨p. 626⟩among men? Nothing (considering the corruptions and lusts of men) can be more unequal then that equality which some have vainly contended for among men. All men would fall down into confusion, if some were not above. That which keeps all up, is, only that some are uppermost, Kings and Princes.
This Text speaks of Kings and Princes; and the most of men are inferiour not only to Kings, but to Princes. God hath not made man upon earth as minims in writing, all of a height; but as in the alphabet of Letters, some are longer and deeper then others; so in the Alphabet of mankinde, some men are bigger and higher then others. Kings and Princes are but men, yet they are men in a great letter, or they are among men as the Aleph among the letters, which as it is first in order, so it signifies a Prince, a Chief, a Leader. And if the most wise God had not ordered such an inequality among men, how should order have been kept ⟨p. 626⟩among men? Nothing (considering the corruptions and lusts of men) can be more unequal then that equality which some have vainly contended for among men. All men would fall down into confusion, if some were not above. That which keeps all up, is, only that some are uppermost, Kings and Princes.
Secondly, (which is here principally aimed at,) Note.