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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.
It shall prove me perverse.
What shall prove me perverse? Some refer it to the former clause, My mouth (or the speaking of those words, I am perfect) shall prove me perverse. 1Others refer it to God, God will prove me perverse, if I justify my self. The Seventy leave it without restriction ⟨p. 299⟩to any antecedent, If I say I am perfect, I shall go away perverse, or I shall appear perverse.
What shall prove me perverse? Some referre it to the former clause, My mouth (or the speaking of those words, I am perfect) shall prove me perverse. 1Others referre it to God, God will prove me perverse, if I justifie my self. The Seventy leave it without restriction ⟨p. 299⟩to any antecedent, If I say I am perfect, I shall go away perverse, or I shall appear perverse.
- 1Penversus evada•.
Observe hence that famous Gospel-doctrine, No man can be justified before God by the works of the law. 1It is as noble a proof of free justification in the old Testament, as any in the new. The Saints have been acquainted with this truth from the beginning, That man is nothing in himself, and that free grace doth all. The doctrine of free grace is no new doctrine: the doctrine of free will is. (