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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.
A third expounds the words as an admiration, I am perfect, and do ye think I know not my own soul? Do ye think I am not acquainted with my self? Am I a stranger at home? Have I so despised my life (think ye) that I take no notice of it, and am either careless or insensible how things go with me? As if he had ⟨p. 305⟩said, I am perfect, and this is the work of a man, whose ways are perfect before the Lord, he knows and considers his own soul, and grows assured how matters are with him: Ye, my friends, charge me with these and these failings, and will force them upon me, whether I will or no: though I deny your charge, yet ye re-join and re-affirm it upon me, as though I knew not my own soul, or as if ye knew me better then me, self. But I am perfect in heart, and I know my own soul, I do not so despise my lif•, as if it were not worth the looking after, or as if I were not worth the ground I go upon.
A third expounds the words as an admiration, I am perfect, and doe ye thinke I know not my own soul? Do ye think I am not acquainted with my self? Am I a stranger at home? Have I so despised my life (think ye) that I take no notice of it, and am either carelesse or insensible how things go with me? As if he had ⟨p. 305⟩said, I am perfect, and this is the work of a man, whose waies are perfect before the Lord, he knows and considers his own soul, and grows assured how matters are with him: Ye, my friends, charge me with these and these failings, and will force them upon me, whether I will or no: though I deny your charge, yet ye re-joyn and re-affirm it upon me, as though I knew not my own soul, or as if ye knew me better then me, self. But I am perfect in heart, and I know my own soul, I doe not so despise my lif•, as if it were not worth the looking after, or as if I were not worth the ground I goe upon.
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