A35439:1742
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.
For the better understanding of this, we may consider the words, as an argument by way of Dilemma, If I be wicked, Why then labour I in vain? If I wash my self with snow-water, &c. As if he had said, Either I am wicked, or I am clean and pure; If I am wicked (as you say I am) I deserve more punishment, then I labour in vain to be eased of this. If I am pure and clean, as washed with snow-water, what will the issue be? God will yet cast me into the ditch of affliction; so that I am between two walls hemmed in on both sides: Wickedness would certainly ruin me, and my righteousness will not deliver me, Why therefore do ye feed me with vain hopes that I should be delivered, if I were righteous! So Bildad assured him in the former Chapter.
For the better understanding of this, we may consider the words, as an argument by way of Dilemma, If I be wicked, Why then labour I in vain? If I wash my self with snow-water, &c. As if he had said, Either I am wicked, or I am clean and pure; If I am wicked (as you say I am) I deserve more punishment, then I labour in vain to be eased of this. If I am pure and clean, as washed with snow-water, what will the issue be? God will yet cast me into the ditch of affliction; so that I am between two wals hemmed in on both sides: Wickednesse would certainly ruine me, and my righteousnesse will not deliver me, Why therefore doe ye feed me with vain hopes that I should be delivered, if I were righteous! So Bildad assured him in the former Chapter.
1More particularly, If I am wicked, Why then labour I in vain?
- 1Si vitae praeter itae laboribu• & pietatis studio sanctitatem non comparavi, neque coram Deo justus babeor, certè labour meus inanis suit. Aquin.Si vitae praeter itae laboribu• & pietatis studio sanctitatem non comparavi, neque coram Deo justus babeor, certè labor meus inanis suit. Aquin.