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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of the book of Job being the substance of thirty-five lectures / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1664
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-fifth, Th… › Chapter 35 › Verses 4-8
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.
The word wickedness notes sin in the highest degree, at least of a high degree; every wickedness is sin, but every sin is not wickedness; yet we are not to understand Elihu's meaning, as if great sins only did mischief and hurt. The truth is, every sin doth hurt and mischief; as a little poison, and the least poison may do hurt, unless it be corrected. We use to say of some things, A little doth not hurt; 1but we canno• say a little poison doth no hurt, unless you do not take it, or unless it be corrected; a little poison uncorrected will do hurt. So then, when Elihu saith here, Thy wickedness may hurt, we are not to understand it only of great sins, as whoredom, murder, perjury, drunkenness, and ⟨p. 48⟩witchcraft, &c. but even of idle thoughts, of vain words, or undue passions; these hurt as well as greater sins, commonly called wickedness. Thy wickedness May hurt a man as thou art.
The word wickednesse notes sin in the highest degree, at least of a high degree; every wickednesse is sin, but every sin is not wickednesse; yet we are not to unde•stand Elihu's meaning, as if great sins only did mischief and hurt. The truth is, every sin doth hurt and mischief; as a little poyson, and the least poyson may do hurt, unless it be corrected. We use to say of some things, A little doth not hurt; 1but we canno• say a little poyson doth no hurt, unlesse you do not take it, or unlesse it be corrected; a little poyson uncorrected will do hurt. So then, when Elihu saith here, Thy wickednesse may hurt, we are not to understand it only of great sins, as whoredome, murder, perjury, drunkenness, and ⟨p. 48⟩witchcraft, &c. but even of idle thoughts, of vain words, or undue passions; these hurt as well as greater sins, commonly called wickednesse. Thy wickedness May hurt a man as thou art.
- 1Modicum non noet.