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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Henry Overton, 1647
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.
JOB Chap. 9. Vers. 14, 15. How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him? Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, I would make supplication to my Judge.
JOB Chap. 9. Vers. 14, 15. How much lesse shall I answer him, and chuse out my words to reason with him? Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, I would make supplication to my Judge.
JOB having in the former passages of this Chapter lifted up the glory and majesty of God, in his power and justice, and showed the utter insufficiency of creatures to implead his justice, or to rescue themselves out of the hand of his power; he now draws his speech nearer home, and calling his thoughts from those remoter journeys up to the heavens, and among the stars, over the mountains and hills, down to the depths of the sea, and foundations of the earth, about all which he had discoursed; I say, calling his thoughts from these remoter travels, he comes now closer to the matter, and from all those premisses deduces a conclusion i• the words of the Text, to vindicate himself from that charge, which his friends laid upon him, as if he were a contender with the power, or an accuser of the wisdom and justice of God: From the folly and blasphemy of both which imputations, he disasperseth himself in these two verses, by an argument taken from the greater to the less, and we may form it up thus: He who is so strong, wise and just, that all the powers in heaven and earth are not able to oppose or stay him; surely I I alone, or single I, a poor weak creature, am not able to oppose or stay him. But (as I have cleared by those former instances) God is so strong, wise and just, that all the powers of heaven,1 the sea, the mountains, and the pillars of the earth, the Sun, Moon and Stars, together with the greatest and mightiest of the children of men, are not able to resist him. Therefore I a poor weak creature, lying here in this sad condition, am not able (nor have I any design) to do it.