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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.
Solomon resolves this Query (Prov. 27.2.) Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips. Man must not speak the evil he knows by others, unless called, nor the good he knows by himself. To speak good of our selves with our own mouths, is much like doing good by other mens hands. We must not act things praise-worthy by proxy but it is best to be praised by proxy for our good acts. Now as man may not praise himself, though other men may praise him: So he must not praise himself, though God praiseth him. Not he that commendeth himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commendeth, 2 Cor. 10.18.
Solomon resolves this Query (Prov. 27.2.) Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth, a stranger, and not thine own lips. Man must not speak the evil he knows by others, unlesse called, nor the good he knows by himself. To speak good of our selves vvith our own mouths, is much like doing good by other mens hands. We must not act things praise-vvorthy by proxie but it is best to be praised by proxy for our good acts. Now as man may not praise himself, though other men may praise him: So he must not praise himself, though God praiseth him. Not he that commendeth himself is approved, but he whom the Lord commendeth, 2 Cor. 10.18.
Secondly, Why doth Job say here, I vvill not justify my self, I vvill not say I am perfect? Whereas in other places he justifies himself, and saith that he was perfect; if you read the 29th and 30th Chapters of this book, you shall find them to be but a continued justification of himself, or a manifest of his own innocency. There he proclaims how holy he had been, and how righteous in all his ways, that he had put on judgement as a robe, and justice as a diadem, that he had delivered the oppressed, and distributed of his fullness to the necessities of the poor. Those two Chapters being a professed Catalogue of his good deeds, why is he so shy and modest here?