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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.
Fifthly, To those who have received but little, I say also two things, by way of caution; First, do not envy those who have received much; It is of God that they have more then you, is your eye evil because the eye of God is good? Secondly, be not discontented with your own lesser portion; do not sit down sullen; say not, we will do nothing with what we have received, because ⟨p. 59⟩we have not as much as others: we know the doom passed on him who having but one talent hid it in a napkin. If we are discontent with a little portion, or with one talent, that little is too much, and that one too many for us; nothing doth more dim the glory of God, nor more destroy and eat out our own comforts, then discontent; the Devil, since his fall, is the most discontented spirit in the world, and he was not contented while he stood, he thought he was not high enough, & that was his undoing. They who are discontent with the gift of God, loose what is given, and so fall into deeper discontent; yea, as the Apostle speaks in another case (1 Tim. 3.6.) into the condemnation of the devil.
Fifthly, To those who have received but little, I say also two things, by way of caution; First, doe not envie those who have received much; It is of God that they have more then you, is your eye evil because the eye of God is good? Secondly, be not discontented with your own lesser portion; doe not sit downe sullen; say not, we will doe nothing with what we have received, because ⟨p. 59⟩we have not as much as others: we know the doome passed on him who having but one talent hid it in a napkin. If we are discontent with a little portion, or with one talent, that little is too much, and that one too many for us; nothing doth more dim the glory of God, nor more destroy and eate out our own comforts, then discontent; the Devill, since his fall, is the most disconcented spirit in the world, and he was not contented while he stood, he thought he was not high enough, & that was his undoing. They who are discontent with the gift of God, loose what is given, and so fall into deeper discontent; yea, as the Apostle speakes in another case (1 Tim. 3.6.) into the condemnation of the devill.