An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Name: An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
Author: Joseph Caryl

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 ...

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: 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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What is it to have eggs, if there be neglect of hatching them? what is it to have young ones, if there be a neglect of bringing them up?¹ It is as great a virtue to preserve what we have attained by labour, as to labour for the attaining of it; and how much soever we labour for the attaining of any thing, unless we labour for the preservation of it, both labours are in vain. All labour is in vain that is not followed with a due care for the preserving of what we labour for.

What is it to have eggs, if there be neglect of hatching them? what is it to have young ones, if there be a neglect of bringing them up?¹ It is as great a vertue to preserve what we have attained by labour, as to labour for the attaining of it; and how much soever we labour for the attaining of any thing, unless we labour for the preservation of it, both labours are in vain. All labour is in vain that is not followed with a due care for the preserving of what we labour for.

1Non minor est virtus quam quaerere parta tueri.

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Note, Secondly; A due fear puts us upon the use of means, for the preservation of our selves and our relations.

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¹What's the reason why this Ostrich takes no care to hatch her eggs, to preserve her young ones? She is fearless; had she a fear about them, she would take care of them. As true love is full of solicitous fear, so due fear is full of solicitous endeavour. Fear makes us both consultive what to do, and active in doing it. And as it makes us both consultive and active about our outward preservation, so much more for our inward and spiritual preservation. It is said of Noah (

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