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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.
Doth God pervert?] Some translate it, supplant justice. And so it imports, secret, cunning ways of injustice; for to supplant, properly is to come behind a man, and to strike up his heels, and cast him down, or to lay somewhat in his way, upon which he may trip or stumble, and then fall. God doth not supplant justice, he lays no plots, he sets no snares to entangle or overthrow a man in his cause.
Doth God pervert?] Some translate it, supplant justice. And so it imports, secret, cunning waies of injustice; for to supplant, properly is to come behinde a man, and to strike up his heels, and cast him down, or to lay somewhat in his way, upon which he may trip or stumble, and then fall. God doth not supplant justice, he layes no plots, he sets no snares to entangle or overthrow a man in his cause.
More largely, The word signifieth, To make crooked, and so it very well answers the point in hand. Judgement and justice are both carried by a straight line: They are the rectitude of our actions. To pervert judgement, is to make crooked lines: So we have the word (Eccles. 1.16.) That which is crooked cannot be made straight. ⟨p. 14⟩He means it of civill, not natural things, whose crookedness is often cured by art; but who can cure all civill evils; man is not able by all his diligence to turn the course of things which God hath determined, though to him there appear much crookedness, and many distortions. Solomon himself makes this interpretation (Chap. 7.13.) where he shows, that it is best to submit to God, because his will is irresistible, and the effects of it unavoidable, Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight which he hath made crooked? So then, to pervert judgement is to make judgement crooked; or to make judgement (to which all things and persons should bow) to bow it self down, as the word is also used, Eccles. 12.3. In the description of old-age, The strong men shall bow themselves; the legs and knees in old-age bow and double under us. To pervert justice is to cripple justice, to make it lame and halt. This word is translated to overthrow (