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…

Bildad sends Job to the ancient fathers, Go, they will teach thee and utter words out of their heart. Whilst we consider what they have spoken and done, it is as if they now spake, Heb. 11.4. Abel by faith offered a better sacrifice then Cain, and being dead he yet speaketh. They who are dead speak by their works, and they speak by the words which they spake, while they were alive. The records which they have left give us counsel to this day. When the rich man (it is the scope of the Parable) I say, when the rich man (Luk. 16.2•.) desired that Lazarus might go from the dead to speak to his brethren, ⟨p. 70⟩Abraham answers him, They have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them, &c. If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead. They have Moses and the Prophets; but Moses and the Prophets were dead and gone; how have they Moses and the Prophets? they have not the men before them, but they had their writings and records: they who read the Prophets writings, hear their speakings. Books are silent voices.

Bildad sends Job to the ancient fathers, Go, they will teach thee and utter words out of their heart. Whilest we consider what they have spoken and done, it is as if they now spake, Heb. 11.4. Abel by faith offered a better sacrifice then Cain, and being dead he yet speaketh. They who are dead speak by their works, and they speak by the words which they spake, while they were alive. The records which they have left give us counsell to this day. When the rich man (it is the scope of the Parable) I say, when the rich man (Luk. 16.2•.) desired that Lazarus might go from the dead to speak to his brethren, ⟨p. 70⟩Abraham answers him, They have Moses and the Prophets, let them hear them, &c. If they hear not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be perswaded though one rose from the dead. They have Moses and the Prophets; but Moses and the Prophets were dead and gone; how have they Moses and the Prophets? they have not the men before them, but they had their writings and records: they who read the Prophets writings, hear their speakings. Books are silent voices.