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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.
Secondly, There is answering by word, which is two-fold: First, Contradictory. Secondly, Satisfactory. The former is, that which the Apostle forbids servants to use (Tit. 2.9.). Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well ⟨p. 251⟩in all things, not answering again. Servants cannot please their masters, unless they answer to what they are demanded, and they cannot please their masters, if they oppose what is duly commanded, this answering again is unseemly in servants.
Secondly, There is answering by word, which is two-fold: First, Contradictory. Secondly, Satisfactory. The former is, that which the Apostle forbids servants to use (Tit. 2.9.). Exhort servants to be obedient unto their own masters, and to please them well ⟨p. 251⟩in all things, not answering again. Servants cannot plaase their masters, unlesse they answer to what they are demanded, and they cannot please their masters, if they oppose what is duly commanded, this answering again is unseemly in servants.
The later kind of answering, is that which the Apostle Peter charges upon all Christians (1 Epist. 3.15.) Be always ready to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear. To answer thus is every mans duty, both to God and man. To answer by contradicting the command of God, is rebellion. To answer by satisfying the demands of God, is a duty. To answer by a proportion to the power or wisdom of God, is infinitely beyond mans ability; Job abhorred the first, he was ready (as well as he could) to perform the second; and therefore Job is chiefly to be understood of the third, How much less shall I answer him? That is, I do not look upon my self as a match for God, as if I had strength proportionable to his strength, or wisdom suitable to his, as if I could thunder like him. I do not think that I am able to answer his reason by my reason, no, I am so far from an ability to answer him with reason, that I know not how to choose out words to reason with him, How much less shall answer him &c.