A35538:1615
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 13-18
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Thirdly, A proud man is like to the Peacock in his exulting clamorous voice or cry: Such love to talk high, and are very loud; they love to be heard as well as seen, and to hear themselves speak in the hearing of others.
Fourthly, The Peacock (say Naturalists) however he hath very goodly feathers, yet hath but a very weak head.1 'Tis so with proud persons; whatever fine shows they make, their intellectuals are but course; and they that are proud of the strength of their heads, of their wit and understandings, have indeed the weakest heads of all. There is much folly lodged in that mans head, where much knowledge lodgeth, if pride lodge in his heart too. And seeing God gives (in this sense) foolish men (as this foolish bird) fine feathers, we need not envy them; for their folly in being proud of their fine feathers, debaseth them more in the sight of God, than their fine feathers can honour them in the sight of men. Usually proud persons have little that is good in them; but how much soever they have, it will be little more ⟨p. 392⟩to them than a fine feather, because they think it so much, that they are proud of it.
Fourthly, The Peacock (say Naturalists) however he hath very goodly feathers, yet hath but a very weak head.1 'Tis so with proud persons; whatever fine shews they make, their intellectuals are but course; and they that are proud of the strength of their heads, of their wit and understandings, have indeed the weakest heads of all. There is much folly lodged in that mans head, where much knowledge lodgeth, if pride lodge in his heart too. And seeing God gives (in this sense) foolish men (as this foolish bird) fine feathers, we need not envy them; for their folly in being proud of their fine feathers, debaseth them more in the sight of God, than their fine feathers can honour them in the sight of men. Usually proud persons have little that is good in them; but how much soever they have, it will be little more