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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, Others say, The Witnesses were Jobs three friends, they all testified against him, Eliphaz began and Bildad was his second, Zophar stood ready to follow; all against Job.
Secondly, Others say, The Witnesses were Iobs three friends, they all testified against him, Eliphaz began and Bildad was his second, Zophar stood ready to follow; all against Iob.
1Thirdly, By Witnesses, most (and they most clearly) understand his afflictions, Thou renewest thy witnesses; that is, thou bringest new troubles to testify against me. When one affliction hath spoken at thy bar against me, thou callest for the testimony of another, and of another, and when there will not be another, I know not, unless it be, when I am not. When Naomi was become Marah, (her former pleasures being turned into bitterness) she saith (Ruth 1.21.) The Lord hath testified against me. Job is very express in the point at the sixteenth Chapter of this book, and the eighth verse, which may be a Commentary upon this, Thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me, beareth witness to my face. Afflictions bring in evidence, and testify many ways.
1Thirdly, By Witnesses, most (and they most clearly) understand his afflictions, Thou renewest thy witnesses; that is, thou bringest new troubles to testifie against me. When one affliction hath spoken at thy bar against me, thou callest for the testimony of another, and of another, and when there will not be another, I know not, unlesse it be, when I am not. When Naomi was become Marah, (her former pleasures being turned into bitternesse) she saith (Ruth 1.21.) The Lord hath testified against me. Iob is very expresse in the point at the sixteenth Chapter of this book, and the eighth verse, which may be a Commentary upon this, Thou hast filled me with wrinckles, which is a witnesse against me: and my leannesse rising up in me, beareth witnes to my face. Afflictions bring in evidence, and testifie many waies.