A35439:1664
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. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. If I say I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness and comfort my self: I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? If I wash my self with snow-water, and make my hands never so clean; Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.
JOB Chap. 9. Vers. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31. If I say I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heavinesse and comfort my self: I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? If I wash my self with snow-water, and make my hands never so clean; Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhorre me.
These words contain a proof of the later part of Jobs assumption. He had affirmed, That an innocent and righteous person may quickly lose all his outward comforts; which he illustrated by three similitudes: now he proves that he may be entangled and lime-twigged with afflictions beyond hope of escape. This he doth in the 27, 28, 29. verses. Which he amplifies with hyperbolical strains, in the 30. and 31. verses. The highest rhetoric of his sorrows being let out, to show how remediless his sorrows were. If I wash my self with snow-water, and make my hands never so clean; Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me; Things are ill with me, and I see not, ⟨p. 344⟩which way to mend my self. I am so far from any probability of help by contending and striving with God, that I have no hope of it by washing and cleansing my self. As carnal and earthly succours fail me, so these heavenly and spiritual duties will not succour me. I will give you the sum and substance of these five verses, in a few words together, and then open the particulars.
THese words contain a proof of the later part of Jobs assumption. He had affirmed, That an innocent and righteous person may quickly lose all his outward comforts; which he illustrated by three similitudes: now he proves that he may be entangled and lime-twig'd with afflictions beyond hope of escape. This he doth in the 27, 28, 29. verses. Which he amplifies with hyperbolicall strains, in the 30. and 31. verses. The highest rhetorick of his sorrows being let out, to shew how remedilesse his sorrows were. If I wash my self with snow-water, and make my hands never so clean; Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me; Things are ill with me, and I see not,