A35439:1721
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.
Again, Taking it tropically (as we render it) for a judicial cleansing or purification; so, Thou wilt not hold me innocent, is as much as this, Lord, such sorrows and troubles are upon me, that I fear thou wilt not declare, or pronounce, or give testimony concerning me to the world, that I am an innocent person. Because the sores and troubles upon him, were as an evidence against him in the judgement of his friends, that he was a wicked person, therefore (saith he) Lord, I am afraid, Thou wilt not hold me, that is, Thou wilt not declare me to be innocent by taking away these evils,1 that so this opinion of my friends concerning me may be removed or confuted.
Again, Taking it tropically (as we render it) for a judiciall cleansing or purification; so, Thou wilt not hold me innocent, is as much as this, Lord, such sorrows and troubles are upon me, that I fear thou wilt not declare, or pronounce, or give testimony concerning me to the world, that I am an innocent person. Because the sores and troubles upon him, were as an evidence against him in the judgement of his friends, that he was a wicked person, therefore (saith he) Lord, I am afraid, Thou wilt not hold me, that is, Thou wilt not declare me to be innocent by taking away these evils,1 that so this opinion of my friends concerning me may be removed or confuted.
- 1Non mundabis, i. e. purum, justum, vel etiam innocentem non declarabis.
From this sense note:
First, That even a godly man in deep afflictions may have misgiving thoughts of God.