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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 37 › Verses 19-20
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First, Pity the ignorant, those especially who are totally ignorant ⟨p. 584⟩and alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, as the Apostle describes them (Eph 4.18.) We pity those that are bodily blind, because (as we •ay) ••ey are dark, they cannot see the Sun; •urely, if bodily darkness, o• the da•kness of the bodily eye, be to be pitied, if such are to be p•ayed for that they may receive sight, how much more is the da•kness of the soul to be pitied, and the blindness of the mind! and the efore are others •o pity them the more, because they (not seeing their danger, nor their misery by it) do not at all pity themselves.
First, Pity the ignorant, those especially who are totally ignorant ⟨p. 584⟩and alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, as the Apostle describes them (Eph 4.18.) We pity those that are bodily blind, because (as we •ay) ••ey are dark, they cannot see the Sun; •urely, if bodily darkne•s, o• the da•kness of the bodily eye, be to be pittied, if such are to be p•ayed for that they may receive sight, how much more is the da•kness of the soul to be pittied, and the blindness of the mind! and the efore are othe•s •o pity them the more, because they (not seing their danger, nor their misery by it) do not at all pity themselves.