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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.
Thirdly, As an Imprecation, If I have sinned, according as I am charged, imprison me as long as thou wilt, and do not acquit me from mine iniquity: If I am such a man as my friends judge me to be, I expect no favour; let me be poor and sick still, torture me, rack me, do what thou wilt with me. Like that of David, Psal. 7.4, 5. If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me, &c. Let the enemy persecute my soul and take it, yea let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. I ask no favour, if I am such a man as mine enemies have represented me: or if I have done that for which they challenge me.
Fourthly, To observe and mark: and it importeth a critical, a curious observation; to mark exactly (Psal. 130.3.) If thou, Lord, shouldst mark iniquity, who shall stand? But doth not the Lord mark iniquity? Doth not he take notice of every sin acted by any of the children of men, especially by his own children? Why then doth the Psalmist put it upon an If? If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquity. 'Tis true, the Lord marks all iniquity to know it, but he doth not mark any iniquity in his children to condemn them for it: So the meaning of the Psalm is, That if the Lord should mark sin, with a strict and severe eye, as a Judge to charge it upon the person sinning, no man could bear it. Master ⟨p. 540⟩Broughton translates, When I sin, thou dost watch me; watching is more then marking;1 as if the Lord had taken up a stand upon a high place, and did there compose himself to see what's done; or to make annotations upon the whole text of mens lives all the world over.
Fourthly, To observe and mark: and it importeth a criticall, a curious observation; to mark exactly (