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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.
Secondly, As they contain a reason, why the Lord would judge him impure, though he should wash himself with snow-water; so also, why the Lord would afflict him, though he should wash himself with snow-water, He is not a man as I am. As if he had said, Should I see a man without spot or speck, without blame or fault, yet full of wounds and stripes, full of troubles and sorrows: Should I see him afflicted, of whom I could not say he had sinned, it were beyond my reason. But though I cannot, yet the Lord can see reason to afflict a man in whom I see no iniquity. He knows why and wherefore, he may and doth cast them into the fire, in whom I can see no dross. He is not a man as I am. God exceeds man in his actings, as much as he doth in his nature, as he is what man is not, so he can do what man cannot, Every thing is in working, as it is in being. God always works like himself, and infinitely above man.
Secondly, As they contain a reason, why the Lord would judge him impure, though he should wash himself with snow-water; so also, why the Lord would afflict him, though he should wash himself with snow-water, He is not a man as I am. As if he had said, Should I see a man without spot or speck, without blame or fault, yet full of wounds and stripes, full of troubles and sorrows: Should I see him afflicted, of whom I could not say he had sinned, it were beyond my reason. But though I cannot, yet the Lord can see reason to afflict a man in whom I see no iniquity. He knows why and wherefore, he may and doth cast them into the fire, in whom I can see no drosse. He is not a man as I am. God exceeds man in his actings, as much as he doth in his nature, as he is what man is not, so he can doe what man cannot, Every thing is in working, as it is in being. God alwaies works like himself, and infinitely above man.
As to the present business, he works above man chiefly in two things.
As to the present businesse, he works above man chiefly in two things.