![]() Herein he is like a stag that hath great horns, but no courage to use them or rather like an ass loaded with gold and victuals, but feeding upon thistles. ![]() Yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, ] i.e., He withholdeth his grace from him, that he cannot use it to his comfort. And this is often repeated in this book, because it can never enough be observed and abhorred. He famisheth at a full feast, he starveth at a fireside. ] Nothing but everything, because he dare not make use of anything almost, but is tantalised by his own baseness. xxviii.Įcc 6:2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this vanity, and it an evil disease. And Cato so felt this miserable life, ut causa moriendi nactum se esse gauderet, d that he was glad of an occasion to go out of the world.Ĭ Hypocritis nihil stupidius. It happened to be a part of Mithridates’ misery, that he had made himself unpoisonable. ![]() One evil may well be common among many, when many evils are so commonly upon one. ] Proper to men, for beasts are not subject to this evil disease, and common to all sorts of men. "He crieth not when God bindeth him," Job 36:13 saith Elihu of hypocrites a generation of men, than the which nothing is more stupid and insensible c till at length, God making forcible entry upon them, doth violently break that cursed covenant that they have made with death and hell, dash the very breath out of their bodies with one plague upon another, turn them out of their earthly tabernacles, with a firma eiectione, and send them packing to their place in hell, from which they would not be stopped by all those crosses that, for that purpose, he cast in their way.Īnd it is common among men. ![]() The skilful surgeon mortifieth with straigtht binding the member that must be cut off so doth God fit us for our cutting off, by binding us with the cords of afflictions. 1Co 15:19 And yet so it is God is forced to smoke us out of our clayey cottages, and to make life unto us to be nothing better than a lingering death, that we may grow weary of it, and breathe after a better, a where are riches without rust, pleasure without pain, youth without decay, joy without sorrow, Ubi nihil sit quod nolis, et totum sit quod velis, b where is all that heart can wish, &c. One would wonder, surely, that our life here being so grievously afflicted, should yet be so inordinately affected and that even by those that are "in deaths often," that have borne God’s yoke from their youth, that have suffered troubles without and terrors within, and who, if they had hope in this life only, were, by their own confession, of all men the most unhappy. A diligent observer he was of human miseries, that he might hang loose to life and the better press upon others the vanity of doting upon it. ] This wretched life is so pestered with evils that the Preacher could hardly cast his eye beside one or other of them. There is an evil that I have seen under the sun. We invite you to share yours today.Ecc 6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it common among men: Fresh challenges have always stimulated us. And every case study in turn, has become yet another chapter in our little encyclopedia of handling family affairs. Every challenge resolved has become a case study. Our skill sets and network have expanded in response to these needs. Over the years, immersion into our clients' family dynamics has helped us appreciate the complex and global requirements of their businesses. ![]() Going far beyond banking, our careers have been enhanced by the rich dynamics of helping families manage their wealth and handling the challenges therein. We are a team of ex-bankers who have a collective experience of working with over 500 Ultra High Net worth families. Privatus is a Singapore based multi-family office handling clients across Asia and Europe. ![]()
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