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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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Thirdly, We may infer; Let all learn to be content with, and thankful for their own clothing or portion in this world, though it be but mean, course or plain, and much inferior to what they see others have. 1Those birds which have but poor feathers are satisfied with them, as well as the Peacock and the Ostrich with their gaudy ones. By this argument God would persuade Job, to be quiet and patient, though his clothing at that time was very mean, yea, though all the gay feathers of his former prosperity were plucked oft and he stripped naked, as he (poor man) said at the 21th verse of the first Chapter; Naked came I out of my Mothers womb, and naked shall I return thither, that is, to the womb of the earth, mans common parent. Though we make not a fair show (as the Apostle saith some desired to do, Gal. 6.12.) in the flesh; though we have not such goodly feathers on our backs, in our outward robes as others have, let us be thankful for a dress of the meanest clothing, and patient though dressed in sackcloth. God is a sovereign Lord, he is at his liberty to give goodly wings and glorious feathers to this bird, and plain ones to another: And the same liberty he may and doth take and exercise when and where he pleaseth, among the children of men. Gavest thou the goodly wings to the Peacocks? or wings and feathers to the Ostrich?
Thirdly, We may infer; Let all learn to be content with, and thankful for their own clothing or portion in this world, though it be but mean, course or plain, and much inferiour to what they see others have. 1Those birds which have but poor feathers are satisfied with them, as well as the Peacock and the Ostrich with their gaudy ones. By this argument God would perswade Job, to be quiet and patient, though his clothing at that time was very mean, yea, though all the gay feathers of his former prosperity were pluckt oft and he stript naked, as he (poor man) said at the 21th verse of the first Chapter; Naked came I out of my Mothers womb, and naked shall I return thither, that is, to the womb of the earth, mans common parent. Though we make not a fair shew (as the Apostle saith some desired to do, Gal. 6.12.) in the flesh; though we have not such goodly feathers on our backs, in our outward robes as others have, let us be thankful for a dress of the meanest clothing, and patient though dressed in sackcloth. God is a soveraign Lord, he is at his liberty to give goodly wings and glorious feathers to this bird, and plain ones to another: And the same liberty he may and doth take and exercise when and where he pleaseth, among the children of men. Gavest thou the goodly wings to the Peacocks? or wings and feathers to the Ostrich?