A35439:1745
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.
But secondly (for I lay this aside) Others thus, If I am wicked, it is a vain thing for me to seek the Lord, as you advise me. Why will you put me upon a business which will be fruitless and without success? It was the word of God in Jobs time, though no Scripture,1 That God heareth not sinners: Not such sinners as Jobs friends challenged him to be. So Job seems to compare their opinion of him, and counsel given him thus together; your opinion of me is, that I am a wicked man; your counsel to me is, that I should seek unto God: Surely, your opinion of me, and your counsel to me can never agree, for if I am wicked (as you hold me to be) I labour in vain, while I obey your counsel.
But secondly (for I lay this aside) Others thus, If I am wicked, it is a vain thing for me to seek the Lord, as you advise me. Why will you put me upon a businesse which will be fruitlesse and without successe? It was the word of God in Jobs time, though no Scripture,1 That God heareth not sinners: Not such sinners as Jobs friends challenged him to be. So Job seems to compare their opinion of him, and counsell given him thus together; your opinion of me is, that I am a wicked man; your counsell to me is, that I should seek unto God: Surely, your opinion of me, and your counsel to me can never agree, for if I am wicked (as you hold me to be) I labour in vain, while I obey your counsell.
- 1Si autem & sic impius sum frustra laboravi, i. e. si impius sum, ut vos de me dicitis. Vul.
There is a sense, wherein it is in vain for a wicked man to seek unto God, and a sense wherein it is not in vain for a wicked man to seek unto God: we must distinguish of this interpretation.