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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 40 › Verse 3-5
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Thirdly, Man is vile, with respect to all those evil consequences and effects of sin, which have possessed, or are ready to possess, First, our bodies; such are weakness, sickness, pains, and all manner of diseases. Secondly, our names; such are reproach, infamy and disgrace. Thirdly, our estates; such are poverty and want. Fourthly, our persons; imprisonment and restraint. Fifthly, our souls; such are blindness and ignorance in our minds, stubbornness in our wills, inordinacy in our affections. These consequences of sin, as well as sin it self, especially those consequences of sin which are themselves sinful (as those last mentioned are) render us vile.
Thirdly, Man is vile, with resp•ct to all those evil consequences and effects of sin, which have possessed, or are ready to possess, First, our bodies; such are weakness, sickness, pains, and all manner of diseases. Secondly, our names; such are reproach, infamie and disgrace. Thirdly, our estates; such are poverty and want. Fourthly, our persons; imprisonment and restraint. Fifthly, our souls; such are blindness and ignorance in our minds, stubborness in our wills, inordinacy in our affections. These consequences of sin, as well as sin it self, especially those consequences of sin which are themselves sinful (as those last mentioned are) render us vile.
From this first Observation, take these four inferences.
First, If man be vile in that threefold respect before spoken of (he is so in many more) then let not any man prize himself much. We do not prize vile things without us; why then should we much prize our selves who are vile? We are very apt to have thoughts of our selves beyond our selves, or to think of our selves beyond what is meet. Did we remember that we were vile, high thoughts of self would soon down, and we would cease from our selves, as well as from other men, saying, Wherein are we (men) to be accounted of? (