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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, 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?
Secondly, Why doth Job say here, I vvill not justifie 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 finde 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 waies, that he had put on judgement as a robe, and justice as a diadem, that he had delivered the oppressed, and distributed of his fulnesse to the necessities of the poor. Those two Chapters being a professed Catalogue of his good deeds, why is he so shie and modest here?
I answer, In this and the like expressions,1 while Job saith, He will not justify himself, or say, he is perfect, he declines the plea of personal righteousness, or perfection in the sight of God, as hath frequently appeared in this argument. But in those Chapters and in other places where he is upon his defence; he speaks only in reference to the charge of his friends; As if he had said, Ye accuse me for an hypocrite, and censure me deeply, I can justify my self, and plead my innocency with you, though I have not a word to say for my self before the Lord; I will bear any thing at his hands, let him say of me, and do with me what he pleaseth, I will take shame to my self, and give him glory; but as for you my friends, I will justify my self in your sight, I am not the man ye take me for.