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A35538	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 ...	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1653 (1653)	Wing C777; ESTC R19353	930,090	1,092

there is more than a shadow of pride in brutes Even as a man is proud of fine new cloaths so is a horse of his trappings or as a man is proud of a strong glistering shield so is Leviathan of his scales And I may safely say that as some beasts are proudish so all proud men so far as they are proud are brutish It is not for want of grace only but for want of a due exercise of reason that any man is proud Secondly Note Extraordinary attainments or injoyments are occasions of pride Why are Leviathans scales his pride 'T is because they are so strong and close that he thinks himself safe from all injuries under their shelter The word properly signifyeth a buckler of molten brass They who are armed with such a defensive weapon fear neither sword nor spear Any great injoyments or attainments are occasions of pride The Peacock is proud of his feathers and the horse of his strength and men are proud of their riches and worldly abundance 1 Tim. 6.17 Charge them that are rich in this world that they be not high-minded nor trust in uncertain riches Some good men no sooner get a few golden scales or their scales a little gilded but they begin to be proud therefore the Apostle gave Timothy that charge to warn such rich men as professed the true faith of the Gospel to take heed of high-mindedness And as men are apt to be proud of their riches so are women of their beauty and the learned of their knowledge and the wise of their understanding and great men of their power and godly men if they have but gifts beyond their brethren are apt to be proud of them And as some are proud of the gifts given them by God so many are proud of the gifts given by them to men I mean of their good deeds or works of charity Salvation saith the Apostle Ephes 2.9 is not of works least any man should boast If salvation were by working either by works of grace or gracious works towards God or works of charity towards men men would be boasting which is properly the work of pride Again men are very apt to be proud of their priviledges The Nation of the Jews how proud were they of that priviledge that they were Abrahams children that they had the Law and Temple Whence the Apostle left that serious admonition to the Gentiles Rom. 11.20 Because of unbelief they were broken off and thou standest by faith be not high minded but fear Do not pride your selves in your priviledges as they did lest you also be broken off as they are Lastly some have been proud even of their graces that of the Apostle argueth it 1 Cor. 4.6 7. Who hath made thee to differ thou hast grace and another hath none who hath made this difference between thee and him hath not God what hast thou that thou hast not received why then dost thou boast as if thou hadst not received it Even they that have received grace are in danger of boasting as if they had not received it I may say as of all proud men so of all men who are but toucht with pride as here it is said of Leviathan Their scales some attainments or other are their pride And hence we may infer If great attainments are an occasion of pride then Let us pray for an humble heart in high injoyments and attainments If you have strong scales much strength about you or in you beg hard for humility be not like Leviathan let not your scales be your pride His scales are his pride Shut up together as with a close or strait seal Things straitly sealed up can hardly be parted How close the scales of Leviathan are is further shewed Ne spiraculum quidom incedit per eas Hieron Vers 16. One is so near to another that no air can come between The Lord doth not say you cannot put a straw or a hair between but no air can come between The air is the most subtile thing in nature the air passeth through not only little cranies but imperceptible pores yet the juncture of Leviathans scales is so close that the subtile air cannot pass between The next verse is only an hightning of the same thing Vers 17. They are joyned one to another they stick together that they cannot be sundred Scales are lap 't one over another like the tiles of an house they stick like boards glued The Hebrew is they are joyned a man to his brother Vir fratri adhaerit 'T is common in that language to call two things joyned together a man and his brother or a woman and her sister Thus Exod. 25.20 And the cherubims shall stretch-forth their wings on high covering the Mercy-seat with their wings and their faces shall look one to another The Hebrew is shall look a man to his brother Again Exod. 26.5 Moses giving direction about the loops for the curtains of the Tabernacle saith Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second that the loops may take hold one of another The Text is a woman of her sister Thus union is expressed because 't is supposed a man and his brother a woman and her sister keep near together in love Leviathans scales are joyned as close together as a man and his brother or as a woman and her sister that is they are most closely joyned or as some take the allusion they stick together as prisoners that are linked and chained one to another This union or closeness of Leviathans scales shews both his strength and his safety Hence note Vnity is a great means to keep any strong and safe How cometh Leviathan to be so safe his scales are close together If he had never so strong scales were they not joyned together they could be no safety to him union makes every thing stronger and safer A company of arrows bound up together how strong are they by which Sylurus invited his Sons to unity Ahab no doubt had very strong armour armour of proof but it had joynts in it 1 Kings 22.34 And so A certain man drew a bow at a venture and smote the King of Israel between the joynts of his harness Death the deadly arrow made its entrance at the joynts of his Armour Weak things closely joyned together become strong and strong things wanting union prove weak Satan is the strong man Armed and the Scriptures of truth tell us that Satans kingdom is not devided there is no casting out devils by Beelzebub Satan and his agents stick together as the scales of Leviathan in opposing the kingdom of Jesus Christ Psal 83.5 6 7. They have consulted together with one consent they are confederate against thee Gebal and Ammon and Amaleck the Philistines with the Inhabitants of Tyre Assur also is joyned with them These were all cleaving together as close as the scales