A35538:1633
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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Fourthly, The Ostrich is a creature of a mighty digestion, of a hot stomach; and therefore is painted and figured with a piece of iron in her mouth, implying, she digests iron.1 Thus the hypocrite can digest the hardest things, even that which is harder than iron, sin; that which lieth upon the stomach of a godly man as heavy as a stone, that is, which burdens his conscience, that the hypocrite can swallow, it goes down easily with him, and is as easily digested; he can swallow this and that sin without trouble, especially, if he can but do it unseen or in secret; he makes no bones (as we say) of any thing, which may but feed some lust, he hath a conscience wide enough, and hot enough, and strong enough to digest iron, any unlawful deed if it serve his turn, or may tu•n to his worldly advantage. That which a man truly fearing God, and strongly resolved to do his known will, and nothing else knowingly, cannot will, not do, nor touch with for a world, that he can do, and will do for some poor pittances, much more for the great things of the world.
Fourthly, The Ostrich is a creature of a mighty digestion, of a hot stomack; and therefore is painted and figured with a piece of iron in her mouth, implying, she digests iron.1 Thus the hypocrite can digest the hardest things, even that which is harder than iron, sin; that which lieth upon the stomack of a godly man as heavy as a stone, that is, which burdens his conscience, that the hypocrite can swallow, it goes down easily with him, and is as easily digested; he can swallow this and that sin without trouble, especially, if he can but do it unseen or in secret; he makes no bones (as we say) of any thing, which may but feed some lust, he hath a conscience wide enough, and hot enough, and strong enough to digest iron, any unlawful deed if it serve his turn, or may tu•n to his worldly advantage. That which a man truly fearing God, and strongly resolved to do his known will, and nothing else knowingly, cannot will, not do, nor touch with for a world, that he can do, and will do for some poor pittances, much more for the great things of the world.
- 1Omnia digerere potest Struthio.