A35538:1628
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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And besides the beauty of her feathers, their equality or evenness is so remarkable, that among the Egyptians, the feather of an Ostrich was taken for the symbol of equity; so that when they would signify a man of an equal spirit and conversation towards all men, and in all things, they used to paint the feather of an Ostrich.
And besides the beauty of her feathers, their equality or evenness is so remarkable, that among the Egyptians, the feather of an Ostrich was taken for the symbol of equity; so that when they would signifie a man of an equal spirit and conversation towards all men, and in all things, they used to paint the feather of an Ostrich.
Secondly, I shall add this also; That as in the Peacock we had the representation of a proud person, so in the Ostrich the lively image or picture of an Hypocrite, which may be held out and made good in these five particulars.
First, The Ostrich is a kind of middle creature (as was said) between a bird that flies in the air, and a beast that goes upon the ground, having somewhat of both, yet is properly neither. ⟨p. 396⟩Thus it is with the Hypocrite or false-hearted Christian; He stands between a godly man and a profane man,1 he is neither; he is not profane, in strict sense (though really he be so, as the Hebrew word for a Hypocrite imports, yet (I say) in strict sense he is not profane) because he makes a profession, and appears to men in a form of godliness; yet he is not godly, because he only makes a profession, and appears in a form of godliness, either denying, or at least, not having any power of godliness. A Hypocrite hangs, as I may say, between God and man, between the ways of holiness, and the ways of sin; he either halts between two Religions, as Elijah told the Jews (