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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.
Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? Wast thou then born? Surely no, nor till many ages after. They who number most days, number but a few days; it was but the other day since we had not so much as a day in this world. Wast thou then b•rn?
Fourthly, Note; As it is but a little while since any man was born into the world, so there is no man born, that hath long to stay in this world.
As the number of our days past is not great, so neither can the number of our days to come be great. Here we have a Text, yea a Map of our Mortality, and a memorial of our short stay or quick passage through this world. No man hath had many days since he came into this world; they that have had most, have had but few to eternity. As for the most of men, they go out of the world with a very few days upon their backs; and as none have many days, so none know how many days they shall have. Our life hath these two things in it, which should continually humble us, and keep us not only awake, but watchful:
As the number of our days past is not great, so neither can the number of our days to come be great. Here we have a Text, yea a Map of our Mortality, and a memorial of our short stay or quick passage through this world. No man hath had many days since he came into this world; they that have had most, have had but few to eternity. As for the most of men, they go out of the world with a very few days upon their backs; and as none have many days, so none know how many days they shall have. Our life hath these two things in it, which should continually humble us, and keep us not onely awake, but watchful: