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…

In most of these points he answers exactly, according to the strict laws and rules of disputation.

First, Repeating his Opponents argument, and then yielding what was true, denying what was false, and distinguishing about what was doubtful. Which he doth with so much acuteness and vigour, with so much strength and clearness both of reason and judgement, that one of the Ancients cries out upon the whole ⟨p. 144⟩matter of his answer in these Chapters, O how much Philosophy (I may say, ¹how much logic) hath Job showed in this reply to the argument of Bildad!

First, Repeating his Opponents argument, and then yeelding what was true, denying what was false, and distinguishing about what was doubtfull. Which he doth with so much acutenesse and vigour, with so much strength and clearnesse both of reason and judgement, that one of the Ancients cries out upon the whole ⟨p. 144⟩matter of his answer in these Chapters, O how much Philosophy (I may say, ¹how much logick) hath Job shewed in this reply to the argument of Bildad!

1. 1Quantum verba haec praese feru•t philosophiam. Chrys.

Bildad's argument speaks to this effect; God who hath punished thee is just, therefore thou art unjust. Job in answer, grants the antecedent, but denies the consequent. His grant of the antecedent appears in the two first verses of the Chapter, I know it is so of a truth (I yield this) but how should man be just with God? He proves and confirms that God is just, in the fourth verse, by a double medium.