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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 13-18
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Fifthly, Pliny saith, the Ostrich being a very tall creature,1 is yet so foolish, that if she hide her head, she thinks herself all hid and safe from danger; she concludes no man sees her, if she sees no man. Thus it is with the hypocrite, if he can but be out of sight himself, he thinks none see him, no not God himself (Psal. 94.6, 7.) They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless; yet they say, the Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. They think they do all in such secrecy, that as men do not, so God shall not behold it.
Fifthly, Pliny saith, the Ostrich being a very tall creature,1 is yet so foolish, that if she hide her head, she thinks herself all hid and safe from danger; she concludes no man sees her, if she sees no man. Thus it is with the hypocrite, if he can but be out of sight himself, he thinks none see him, no not God himself (Psal. 94.6, 7.) They slay the widdow and the stranger, and murther the fatherless; yet they say, the Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. They think they do all in such secrecy, that as men do not, so God shall not behold it.
- 1Tanta eorum stoliditas, ut cum colla frutice occulta berint latere see existimant. Plin. l. 10. c. 1.Tanta eorum stoliditas, ut cum colla frutice occulta berint latere se existimant. Plin. l. 10. c. 1.
Lastly, The Ostrich hath very gay feathers, of much more worth than the Peacock, yet the Ostrich hath no more wit than the Peacock; one is the emblem of a proud man, the other of a hypocrite, both bravely clothed, yet with nothing but feathers.