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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.
It is not greatness of birth, of place, or power, that can make any man wise, nor doth it at all assure us, that a man is wise, because we see him exalted to and settled in a place of power and greatness.
It is not greatnesse of birth, of place, or power, that can make any man wise, nor doth it at all assure us, that a man is wise, because we see him exalted to and setled in a place of power and greatness.
The Prophet (Jer. 5.4, 5.) finding some very incorrigible and hardened in sinful courses, concluded them mean persons, and in the lowest form of the people. Therefore I said, Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the ⟨p. 64⟩Lord, nor the Judgement of their God. To be poor and foolish is very common; these are poor and foolish (saith the Prophet) but surely I shall find the Great ones better accommodated with wisdom; and thereupon he resolved, I will get me to the great men, and will speak unto them, for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgement of their God; That is, these great men have had great means of knowledge, and we have reason to suppose them as great in knowledge, as they are in place or power. But did the great men answer his expectation? did he find that in them, which he sought and looked for? nothing less: The great men proved more foolish, or less in true knowledge then the poor, as it followeth, But these have altogether broken the yoke and burst the bonds; As if he had said, I thought these great men had been wise, but I see they are very fools. What can be a greater argument of folly, then to break those yokes and bonds, which the wisdom of God hath put upon us? 'Tis both our wisdom and our freedom to be bound by the most wise and holy will of God; and hence the Prophet accounts this one as strong as a thousand arguments, to prove that the Great men among the Jews were not wise, because they were not only unwilling to be bound to the obedience of the will of God, but wilfully burst those bonds. When Jesus Christ came into the world, the great ones, the Rabbis had the least true wisdom, they would not believe on him, nor receive him; yea some boasted of this their unbelief as an argument of their wisdom (