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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.
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:
First, Our days in this life are few, our life is short in this world.
Secondly, Our days are unfixed, as to us, our life is uncertain. They that reckon upon many days in this life, usually fall short of their reckoning. 'Tis or should be matter of humiliation to us, that we are short-lived, short breathed creatures; we who were born into the world but the other day, shall in a few days (no man knows how few) pass out of the world again.
Secondly, Our days are unfixed, as to us, our life is uncertain. They that reckon upon many days in this life, usually fall short of their reckoning. 'Tis or should be matter of humiliation to us, that we are short-liv'd, short breath'd creatures; we who were born into the world but the other day, shall in a few days (no man knows how few) pass out of the world again.