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…

Or we may take the meaning of the words, as a secret reproof of Job; If thou wilt look after these fathers, and search them, they will not speak as thou hast done, rashly, unadvisedly and indiscreetly, but they will speak from their hearts, they will utter things of weight and serious consideration. From hence observe,

First, That old men are presumed to have a great stock of knowledge.

Go to the fathers, they will certainly teach thee. Every man should labour to have a proportion of knowledge to his proportion of years, we should not be children in understanding, when we are men in time. The Apostle reproves such as are so (Heb. 5.2.) When (saith he) for the time you ought to be teachers (look upon the years that are gone over your heads, and you ought to be teachers; you should have much in your hearts for the instruction of others, yet so it is) you have need that one teach you again, which be the first principles of the oracles of God, and you are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

Go to the fathers, they will certainly teach thee. Every man should labour to have a proportion of knowledge to his proportion of years, we should not be children in understanding, when we are men in time. The Apostle reproves such as are so (Heb. 5.2.) When (saith he) for the time you ought to be teachers (look upon the yeers that are gone over your heads, and you ought to be teachers; you should have much in your hearts for the instruction of others, yet so it is) you have need that one teach you again, which be the first principles of the oracles of God, and you are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.