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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.
Hence the Prophets send the people back to antiquity, Jer. 6.16. Enquire for the good old-way. Every old way is not a good way, but in every good old way we may walk safely and see the footsteps of truth.1 It is a received rule, That is truest which is ancientest. It is certainly so, for truth is not only ancient, but eternal. Truth is as old as God himself, for truth is nothing else but the mind of God, truth was with God from everlasting. Truth is commonly ⟨p. 59⟩called the daughter of time, yet (in a sense) it is the mother of time, for it was before time was; and therefore (no question) that which is ancientest is truest.
Hence the Prophets send the people back to antiquity, Jer. 6.16. Enquire for the good old-way. Every old way is not a good way, but in every good old way we may walk safely and see the footsteps of truth.1 It is a received rule, That is truest which is ancientest. It is certainly so, for truth is not only ancient, but eternall. Truth is as old as God himself, for truth is nothing else but the minde of God, truth was with God from everlasting. Truth is commonly ⟨p. 59⟩called the daughter of time, yet (in a sense) it is the mother of time, for it was before time was; and therefore (no question) that which is ancientest is truest.
- 1Quod antiquissimum verissi•um.
Yet there is a great abuse of this principle. Look back to antiquity and consult with your fathers (say many) and see what they did, how they believed. But what is the antiquity they call us to consult with? It is not (as Moses spake in that place of Deuteronomy) antiquity, since God created man upon earth, or since Jesus Christ was upon the earth, and gave out his Gospel-laws: but it is the antiquity of some later ages and editions, an antiquity far short of what is indeed the ancient time. The Apostle (