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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.
Verse 20. If I justify my self.
Verse 20. If I justifie my self.
That is, If witness fail, and counsel fail, if all help and succours fail me, and then I resolve to go to work with my own strength and wit, if I go about to make or declare my self just before God (for so the word is to be understood, as in the doctrine of justification) What shall I gain? The profit will not countervail the charge, or pay for the expense of one breath; For Mine own mouth shall condemn me.
That is, If witnesse fail, and counsell fail, if all help and succours fail me, and then I resolve to go to work with my own strength and wit, if I goe about to make or declare my self just before God (for so the word is to be understood, as in the doctrine of justification) What shall I gain? The profit will not countervail the charge, or pay for the expence of one breath; For Mine own mouth shall condemn me.
My tongue would cut my own throat; The sentence or words which I should bring forth to plead my cause before God,1 would be found against me; the Lord would turn all my arguments back upon me, and wound me with mine own weapons. I should go out condemned, and my plea would be turned into sin. I shall certainly spoil my cause, if I handle it. As, if I should put it into the hands of angels or men, they could make nothing of it, so neither can I make any thing of it, if I manage it my self.