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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.
Lastly, If we take the words, as importing a calling to God for answer in a way of provocation (as was showed before) then the sense is; If I had an ambition to contend with God, and he had answered me, by condescending to that course, yet I could not believe he had hearkened to my voice, that is, I could not believe that he had yielded the cause to me; why? because he goes on still to break ⟨p. 281⟩me with tempests; he follows me with trouble still; he shows he hath done me no wrong in my former afflictions, by his going on to afflict me still, he is so far from acknowledging the least injustice, in what is past of my sufferings, that I suffer more, He breaks me with a tempest, and Multiplies my wounds without cause.
Lastly, If we take the words, as importing a calling to God for answer in a way of provocation (as was shewed before) then the sense is; If I had an ambition to contend with God, and he had answered me, by condescending to that course, yet I could not believe he had hearkned to my voice, that is, I could not believe that he had yeelded the cause to me; why? because he goes on still to break ⟨p. 281⟩me with tempests; he follows me with trouble still; he shews he hath done me no wrong in my former afflictions, by his going on to afflict me still, he is so farre from acknowledging the least injustice, in what is past of my sufferings, that I suffer more, He breaks me with a tempest, and Multiplies my wounds without cause.
But is not this injustice to multiply wounds without cause?1 Is not this a charge of blasphemy upon God? May we not think that now Satan had his wish, and that Job cursed God indeed?
- 1[Greek or Hebrew] Gratis.