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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.
When a man speaks a thing, of which he is very sure and resolved to hold, he saith, in our language, That's once, that is, I have said it, and I will not unsay it, or eat my words. As Pilate when he was desired to change the inscription which he had put upon the cross of Christ, answered, What I have written, I have written, ⟨p. 308⟩I will not alter a letter or a title: So a confident assertour answers, What I have said, I have said; This is one thing, therefore I said it. Truth changes not, why then should I, who have born witness to this truth. Truth must be stood to. We have reason to stick to truth, for truth will stick to us; we may say it, and say it again, for it will do us good again and again. The declarative truth of God is like Christ, the essential truth, The same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Though it be very old, yet, it waxeth not old.
When a man speaks a thing, of which he is very sure and resolved to hold, he saith, in our language, That's once, that is, I have said it, and I will not unsay it, or eat my words. As Pilate when he was desired to change the inscription which he had put upon the crosse of Christ, answered, What I have written, I have written, ⟨p. 308⟩I will not alter a letter or a title: So a confident assertour answers, What I have said, I have said; This is one thing, therefore I said it. Truth changes not, why then should I, who have born witnesse to this truth. Truth must be stood to. We have reason to stick to truth, for truth will stick to us; we may say it, and say it again, for it will doe us good again and again. The declarative truth of God is like Christ, the essentiall truth, The same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Though it be very old, yet, it waxeth not old.
And because this in the text was a great truth, the very hinge upon which the whole dispute between Job and his friends turned, therefore he is so resolute in it. Whence note further,