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…

Here, to enquire, is to use all endeavours and means to find out the best informations and resolutions, which the fathers in those former ages were able to give Job in the controversy then a foot between him and his friends, Enquire, I pray thee.

Here, to enquire, is to use all endeavours and means to finde out the best informations and resolutions, which the fathers in those former ages were able to give Job in the controversie then a foot between him and his friends, Enquire, I pray thee.

Of the former age.

By the former we are not to understand those that were immediately preceding only, or those that were preceding for some few generations past,¹ but as the Septuagint well renders it, by former generations, we may understand the first generation; begin at the first, and so come down all along, begin as high as thou canst. Enquire not only of those who lived since the flood, but of all who have been since God created man upon the earth; draw the line of thy search through all ages, and thou shalt find the pedigree of this truth from age to age,² from generation to generation. Enquire, I pray thee, of the former Age.

By the former we are not to understand those that were immediately preceding only, or those that were preceding for some few generations past,¹ but as the Septuagint well renders it, by former generations, we may understand the first generation; begin at the first, and so come down all along, begin as high as thou canst. Enquire not only of those who lived since the floud, but of all who have been since God created man upon the earth; draw the line of thy search thorow all ages, and thou shalt finde the pedegree of this truth from age to age,