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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.
First, In their natural constitution; God hath moulded them in the same fashion, he hath given each of them a body and a soul; A body framed of the same parts, a soul consisting of the same powers. God hath bestowed as much care and cost upon the making of a poor mans body and soul, as upon the rich mans. The richest man in the world, cannot boast that he hath any one member in his body or faculty in his soul, more then a poor man hath.
First, In their naturall constitution; God hath moulded them in the same fashion, he hath given each of them a body and a soul; A body framed of the same parts, a soule consisting of the same powers. God hath bestowed as much care and cost upon the making of a poore mans body and soule, as upon the rich mans. The richest man in the world, cannot boast that he hath any one member in his body or faculty in his soule, more then a poore man hath.
Secondly, Look upon the rich and poor in their Civil state, and so likewise they are the work of his hands: and that I conceive, is here intended as much as, if not more, then the former; not only is God the maker of the poor and of the rich in their natural state, soul and body; but as poo•, and rich, he is the maker of them; that is, he maketh one man poor, and another man rich, as himself pleaseth. (Prov: 22.2.) The rich and the poor meet together, the Lord is the maker of them all. He hath made them men, and he hath made them rich or poor men. There is as much of the power and wisdom of God seen in making some men poor and others rich, as there is in making them men; yea God thinks himself as much honoured in our acknowledgements that the poor with their poverty, as that the rich with all their riches, are the work of his hands.
Secondly, Look upon the rich and poore in their Civil state, and so likewise they are the work of his hands: and that I conceive, is here intended as much as, if not more, then the former; not only is God the maker of the poor and of the rich in their naturall state, soule and body; but as poo•, and rich, he is the maker of them; that is, he maketh one man poore, and another man rich, as himselfe pleaseth. (Prov: 22.2.) The rich and the poor meet together, the Lord is the maker of them all. He hath made them men, and he hath made them rich or poore men. There is as much of the power and wisdome of God seene in making some men poore and others rich, as there is in making them men; yea God thinks himselfe as much honoured in our acknowledgements that the poore with their poverty, as that the rich with all their riches, are the work of his hands.