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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, Observe, Job had received testimony from God. He could produce Letters testimonial, subscribed by the hand of heaven, that he was a just and a perfect man, one that feared God and eschewed evil. Yet this Job (let God speak as well as he will of him) will not speak well of himself to God: Let God report him perfect to men, he will not report himself perfect before God. Though Job had a free and a full certificate of his innocency (not one bought, begged, or got with flattery) yet he forbears in this case to bring it forth, and read it to his friends. They who have most real worth and holiness in them, are least in their own eyes, and lowest in their own thoughts: they of whom God gives the fairest testimony, give the meanest of themselves; he cares not much to appear to be, what God assures him, he is God was positive (without Ifs or Ands) in his opinion of him, Thou art perfect, but he puts it into a supposition, and concludes with an if, If I were perfect, &c.
Secondly, Observe, Job had received testimony from God. He could produce Letters testimoniall, subscribed by the hand of heaven, that he was a just and a perfect man, one that feared God and eschewed evil. Yet this Job (let God speak as well as he will of him) will not speak well of himself to God: Let God report him perfect to men, he will not report himselfe perfect before God. Though Job had a free and a full certificate of his innocency (not one bought, begged, or got with flattery) yet he forbears in this case to bring it forth, and read it to his friends. They who have most reall worth and holinesse in them, are least in their own eyes, and lowest in their own thoughts: they of whom God gives the fairest testimony, give the meanest of themselves; he cares not much to appear to be, what God assures him, he is God was positive (without Ifs or Ands) in his opinion of him, Thou art perfect, but he puts it into a supposition, and concludes with an if, If I were perfect, &c.
In the 21. verse Job carries on the same business, and bewrays a more humble and self denying frame of mind then before.
In the 21. verse Job carries on the same businesse, and bewraies a more humble and self denying frame of minde then before.