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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 36 › Verses 1-4
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If we have but one Talent of knowledge, yet if we use it well, we are perfect in knowledge. They who have digged (as they think) to the heart, and dived to the bottom of all Sciences, yea into the heart of the Scriptures too, yet if they keep their knowledge to themselves, or know only for themselves, if they have base ends and by respects, in vending their knowledge, if they trade with their knowledge for self only, or to do mischief to others, their knowledge is not only utterly imperfect, but, as to any good account, nothing, or none at all. As he that slothfully hides his Talent, so he, who either vain-gloriously shows it, or deceitfully useth it, shall be numbered among those who have none, (Math. 25.29. Luke 8.18.)
If we have but one Talent of knowledge, yet if we use it well, we are perfect in knowledge. They who have digged (as they think) to the heart, and dived to the bottom of all Sciences, yea into the heart of the Scriptures too, yet if they keep their knowledge to themselves, or know only for themselves, if they have base ends and by respects, in vending their knowledge, if they trade with their knowledge for self only, or to do mischief to others, their knowledge is not only utterly imperfect, but, as to any good account, nothing, or none at all. As he that slothfully hides his Talent, so he, who either vain-gloriously shews it, or deceitfully useth it, shall be numbred among those who have none, (Math. 25.29. Luke 8.18.)
Lastly, Elihu speaking of himself in a third person, Note, Modesty is a great virtue, and the grace of all our Graces.
Lastly, Elihu speaking of himself in a third person, Note, Modesty is a great vertue, and the grace of all our Graces.