A35439:1472
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.
JOB Chap. 9. Vers. 22, 23, 24. This is one thing, therefore I said it, he destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the Judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
JOB Chap. 9. Vers. 22, 23, 24. This is one thing, therefore I said it, he destroieth the perfect and the wicked. If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the triall of the innocent. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the Iudges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
1This speech of Job caused a learned interpreter to tremble, when he read it, conceiving, that it savoured strongly of impiety and blasphemy, as if Job had mingled the state of the wicked and of the righteous in one; or, as if his mind were, that the Lord did not distinctively order the affairs of the world by the dictates of his wife providence, but left them to be huddled together by inexorable fate or blind fortune; therefore he concludes that Job rather personates a man void of the true knowledge and ⟨p. 307⟩fear of God, than speaks his own opinion. Thus he censures: but let Job be well weighed, and his discourse will appear full of truth and holiness.
1THis speech of Iob caused a learned interpreter to tremble, when he read it, conceiving, that it savoured strongly of impiety and blasphemy, as if Iob had mingled the state of the wicked and of the righteous in one; or, as if his minde were, that the Lord did not distinctively order the affairs of the world by the dictates of his wife providence, but left them to be hudled together by inexorable fate or blinde fortune; therefore he concludes that Iob rather personates a man void of the true knowledge and