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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35473	An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1650 (1650)	Wing C765; ESTC R17469	487,687	567

I finde not one wise man among you So much may be sayd without passion or reviling Nor did he question their wisedome in generall but as hath been answered for him upon a like passage onely to the point in hand As if he had sayd after all this arguing You are still besides the matter you have not hit the joynt of my case come to mee I will shew you your mistake and make it plaine that you are all out Venite ad me audiendum ostendam vos omnes decipere Drus Hence Observe First It is no fault to speake of men as we finde them The rule of Christ Matth. 7.1 Judge not that yee be not judged forbids first rash judgement of men secondly wrong judgement of men thirdly finall judgement of men that 's peculiar to God but it doth not forbid all judgement of men We may call a Spade a Spade and him unwise who is so All reproving is taken away if all judging be for wee must reprove no man but whom we judge faulty Let the righoeous smite me saith David Psal 141.5 Hee meanes it not of smiting with the Sword but of smiting with a deserved censure as if he had sayd If I have done amisse let me hear of it yea let me smart for it by a faithfull reproofe Secondly Observe A wise man may doe or speake that which is a just forfeiture of his present reputation for wisedome This proceeds sometimes from a speciall judgement of God upon men who in anger blasts their abilities and commands a decay upon their greatest treasures of wisedome Isa 29.14 The wisedome of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid It shall be so saith God the understanding of man is as much at Gods dispose as his riches or honours are Now as this proceeds sometimes from the speciall judgement of God upon man so it may proceed at any time from the naturall frame of man who at the best is a creature composed of light and darknesse of wisedome and folly of knowledge and ignorance of grace and corruption of an old man as well as of a new The over actings of the worser part may soone leave a good and a wise man in the maine under an ecclipse both of his goodnesse and wisedome David sayd in his hast and as hee sayd it he sinned in saying so All men are lyars But we may say it with fullest deliberation and not sin at all in saying so that All men are lyars The Apostle saith it Rom. 3.4 while he saith Yea let God be true and every man a lyar that is Let this be acknowledged and confessed by all That God cannot lye such is his power that hee can neyther deceive nor be deceived but let it be as much acknowledged that every man is under a possibility to be deceived yea and to deceive in the worst sense that in some sense every man is actually deceived or a Deceiver which proves this to be a truth Every man is a lyar The lye is that which no man will beare at the hand of man yet all must beare it from the hand of God it is indeed a dishonour but it is no slander to say that every man is a lyar and because he is so hee may soone dis-intitle himselfe of wisedome We must not lay too much upon men for when they speake and doe most unwisely they speak and doe most like men The Prophet Hos 6.7 saith They like men have transgressed the Covenant The Hebrew is They have transgressed like Adam The Apostle speakes of some over whom death reigned who yet had not sinned after the similitude of Adams transgression Rom. 5.14 Infants dye and they dye in that sin which Adam committed though they never come to commit sin actvally as Adam did but all who sin actually sin after the similitude of Adams transgression He set the first Copy and all his Posterity have written after him Wee doe but shew what we are and whence we are when we sin even a company of men the Sons of Adam To be a man is also to be a sinner Now as it may be sayd we like men have transgressed so we like men are unwise It is very easie for the wisest man to doe unwisely wee have but shewed our selves men when we have shewed our selves unwise That hath obtained as an Axiome It is humane for man to erre One of the wisest sentences among men is That man may doe unwisely He that doth all things wisely is more like God then a Man nor can we doe any thing wisely but as God is pleased to teach and guide us As we have need to aske our daily bread from God for the support of our bodies so our daily wisedome from God for the management of our affaires As God takes the wise in their owne craftinesse 1 Cor. 3.19 so he can take wisedome from the crafty and unlesse he supply wisedome to the vvise they will soone be so overtaken by their own folly that of a whole throng of them it may be sayd by him that engageth with them I have not found one wise man among you Thirdly Observe Wise men are rarely to be found There are store of subtle men and crafty men there are but too many but the wise man is a rare Jewel It was for a wise man that the Prophet commands a search to be made when he sayd Jer. 5.1 Run yee too and fro through the streets of Jerusalem and see now and know and seeke in the broad places thereof if you can finde a man Jerusalem was full of men and yet a man could not be found when diligently sought for What man was this The next words describe him for a wise man indeed if there be any that executeth judgement and seeketh the truth I cannot say that such wise men are thick sowne but I am very sure they are thinn come up Paul found so great a scarsity and dearth of them even among the Saints in the Church of Corinth that though he doth not say it positively with Job here I have not found a wise man among you yet he speakes it Interrogatively and chidingly 1 Cor. 6.5 I speake to your shame is it so that there is not a wise man among you No not one that shall be able to judge betweene his Brethren There are not many knowing wise men among all men but judging wise men are fewest of all Fourthly Observe Wise men are apt to shew themselves unwise in expounding and judging the providences and dealings of God toward man The workes of the most wise God are all right but few men are wise enough to pick out the right meaning of them Providence is carryed about the World in a Chariot of light and yet there is much darknesse in the minds of most men about it This arises chiefely two wayes First From the seeming confusions which are in the world God doth not keep a method nor