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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.
The Question is resolvable into a vehement negation, God doth not pervert judgement, neither doth the Almighty pervert justice. He gives it with a question for greater emphasis, Doth God pervert judgement? Dost thou think he will? Far be it from thee to think so; Injustice lies far from the heart of God, justice lies at his heart, He loveth judgement, Psal. 37.28.
The Question is resolvable into a vehement negation, God doth not pervert judgement, neither doth the Almighty pervert justice. He gives it with a question for greater emphasis, Doth God pervert judgement? Dost thou thinke he will? Farre be it from thee to thinke so; Injustice lies farre from the heart of God, justice lies at his heart, He loveth judgement, Psal. 37.28.
To clear the Text, I shall briefly touch upon the single terms, 1. God. 2. Almighty. 3. Judgement. 4. Justice: And then show what it is to pervert judgement and justice; from all it will appear, how extremely opposite it is to the very nature of God to pervert either.
To clear the Text, I shall briefly touch upon the single terms, 1. God. 2. Almighty. 3. Judgement. 4. Justice: And then shew what it is to pervert judgement and justice; from all it will appear, how extremely opposite it is to the very nature of God to pervert either.
1Doth God.] The word is, Ell, signifying the strong God, the mighty God, the powerful God. In the second clause, Doth the Almighty pervert justice? We have the word, Shaddai, which name of God was largely opened at the seventeenth verse of the fifth