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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 39 › Verse 5-8
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Better be sometimes in a starving condition, than always in a fearing condition, always hearing the cry of the Driver. The wild Ass is content to fare hard, so he may be free: how much more then is he below a man, who parts with his true liberty, as Esau did with his Birth-right, for a morsel of meat, or a mess of broth?
Better be sometimes in a starving condition, than alwayes in a fearing condition, alwayes hearing the cry of the Driver. The wild Ass is content to fare hard, so he may be free: how much more then is he below a man, who parts with his true liberty, as Esau did with his Birth-right, for a morsel of meat, or a mess of broth?
Fourthly, Note; To be driven and forced, is grievous to beasts, much more to men.
The wild Ass regards not the crying of the Driver, because he knows the Driver cannot reach him with his cry, much less with his whip. The tame Ass must regard and attend the cry of the Driver (though he hath no will to it) whether he will or no. It was said by the Moralists, Man would be led, not driven; persuaded, not compelled. The disputes have been great what man may do, and how far he may go to that matter; but I shall not meddle with it any further, than to say, that when Christ in the Parable said (Luke 14.23.) Compel them to come in, The compulsion there intended, is only that of argumentation, exhortation and persuasion by his Ministers, whose divine Rhetoric in beseeching sinners to come in, and to be reconciled unto God, hath such a power in it, as amounts unto, and may be called a compulsion. I grant, many use their liberty, or rather abuse it, as an occasion to the flesh, and turn it into wantonness, these are indeed no better than wild Asses; and though they are such as regard not the cry of the Driver, yet they need it.