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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.
There are two interpretations of these words, Thou shalt plunge me in the ditch.
They may be understood either, first thus, that, God would adjudge him sinful, notwithstanding all his purifyings: and so it answereth the expression of the later clause of the former verse; As if he had said, Though I make my self as clean as clean can be, and thereupon judge my self never so clean, yet thou mayest account me unclean, yea the more I labour to justify my self in my cleanness, the more unclean mayest thou judge me to be; Yet, Thou wilt plunge me in the ditch; 1For we are to understand the words, Thou wilt plunge me; not as of that which the Lord would do, but as of that which the Lord might justly do. As if he had said, Thou mightest have greater cause to plunge me in the ditch, when I am so fine and clean in mine own eyes, then before. When I think I have washed my self as white as snow, thou mayest look upon me, as drawn through a dirty channel, or as wallowed in the mire. After all my cleansing and rinsing, and purifying, thy pure ⟨p. 369⟩eyes can easily see a sinner in me, and discover that I am polluted, though I am washed.
They may be understood either, first thus, that, God would adjudge him sinfull, notwithstanding all his purifyings: and so it answereth the expression of the later clause of the former verse; As if he had said, Though I make my self as clean as clean can be, and thereupon judge my self never so clean, yet thou maiest account me unclean, yea the more I labour to justifie my self in my cleannesse, the more unclean maiest thou judge me to be; Yet, Thou wilt plunge me in the ditch; 1For we are to understand the words, Thou wilt plunge me; not as of that which the Lord would doe, but as of that which the Lord might justly doe. As if he had said, Thou mightest have greater cause to plunge me in the ditch, when I am so fine and clean in mine own eyes, then before. When I think I have washed my self as white as snow, thou maiest look upon me, as drawn thorow a dirty chanell, or as wallowed in the mire. After all my cleansing and rinsing, and purifying, thy pure