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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.
These words stand in an elegant opposition against the former. Here are persons and states opposite: persons, The wicked and the righteous, If I be wicked, if I be righteous: states, Woe, and lifting up the head, If I be wicked, then woe unto me; If I be righteous, then will I not lift up mine head. He doth not say, If I be righteous I shall be happy, though that be a truth, but (which was more suitable to his purpose) If I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head.
These words stand in an elegant opposition against the former. Here are persons and states opposite: persons, The wicked and the righteous, If I be wicked, if I be righteous: states, Woe, and lifting up the head, If I be wicked, then woe unto me; If I be righteous, then will I not lift up mine head. He doth not say, If I be righteous I shall be happy, though that be a truth, but (which was more sutable to his purpose) If I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head.
Some put this into a dilemma, or double argument, by which Job would aggravate the greatness of his affliction; As if he had said, Let me look which way I will, my case is very said, if I be wicked then woe be to me; If I be righteous, yet I am so full of sorrows, that I am not able to hold up my head; But I rather interpret this later part of the verse, as a description of Jobs humility, in the best of ⟨p. 545⟩his spiritual estate then as any aggravation of the illness of his temporal estate.
Some put this into a dilemma, or double argument, by which Iob would aggravate the greatnesse of his affliction; As if he had said, Let me look which way I will, my case is very said, if I be wicked then woe be to me; If I be righteous, yet I am so full of sorrows, that I am not able to hold up my head; But I rather interpret this later part of the verse, as a description of Jobs humility, in the best of ⟨p. 545⟩his spirituall estate then as any aggravation of the ilnes of his temporall estate.