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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 38 › Verse 19-21
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
God, who made all things, was before any thing was made. How great is the number of his years who is eternal! The prescience or sore-sight of God passed through the whole series or through all the successions of the creature, before it had a being. He who is without beginning, without end, knoweth and declareth (as he spake of himself by the Prophet, Isa. 46.10.) the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done. M•n by report may have some understanding of things which were done before he was born; but till he was born he knew nothing of himself, or, of his own knowledge.
Secondly, Note; Man by reason of his short life, knoweth little.
They who have been but a short time in the world, must needs be short in the knowledge of many things; nor can they know much of any thing. Much knowledge is got by much study and travel. And if the best improvers and redeemers of time know but little, at most, because they were but lately born, and have had but little time; surely they who have trifled away their time ever since they were born, must needs know very little. We who came into the light so lately, cannot get much ⟨p. 176⟩light about naturals, and how little is it then that we have or can about spirituals! But if we mis-spend that inch of time that we have in this world, we may go out of it, knowing as little to purpose as we did at all (which was nothing at all) before we came into it.