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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.
To take strict notice of the failings, infirmities, or lesser sins of others, is a point of very great severity.
To take strict notice of the faylings, infirmities, or lesser sins of others, is a poynt of very great severity.
Some are pleased with nothing more then to hear and discourse of other mens failings. 'Tis a great fault to be picking up the lesser faults of others; yet how many are there, who if they can but see, as it were, any bare place, they will be charging at it; if they see but the least scratch or sore, they as the fly, love to be feeding upon it, or raking in it. 'Tis our holiness to take notice of the least sin in our selves, and the more holy any man is, the more quick-sighted and quick-scented he is in taking notice of his lesser sins (when the least neglect of duty and of the least negligence in performance of duty, any ill frame ⟨p. 218⟩of heart, any vain thought, any idle word, any undue carriage, any uncomeliness, is taken notice of and corrected, this shows an excellent frame of spirit, and a great measure of Grace) but it is not good to do so by others, yea it is an argument we are very much wanting and failing in holiness our selves, when we are so apt to take notice of and aggravate every want and failing in our brethren. Yea, when as Christ saith (Math: 7.3.) We see a m•te in our brothers eye, we seldom see the beam in our own. And it is an argument men have beams in their own eyes, when they are so quick-sighted in looking after motes in their brothers eye. I grant, it is a duty to be watchful over one another as brethren, and to take notice, for right ends, of the least failings and faults of any. This is a duty if we do it with a purpose to pray for them, that they may walk more circumspectly; or that we may lovingly reprove, admonish, and counsel them; as also that we may consider our selves and our own ways, lest we fall as they have done. Thus to take notice of the least failings of others, is a great Gospel duty. But to take notice of mens faults, to censure or defame their persons, to insult over them, or accuse them, this is the spirit of a Ham, who mocked at his fathers nakedness. And thus to be critical about the faults of others, argues that we are careless of our own.