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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.
God is most exact in judgement, God is a just God. It is a high truth, and we should adore it, that whatsoever God doth, he is just in doing it. When reason cannot reach, or make it out, yet faith must; and we must honour God in what we cannot understand: The Lord is righteous in all his ways, though his ways are past finding out. For,
God is most exact in judgement, God is a just God. It is a high truth, and we should adore it, that whatsoever God doth, he is just in doing it. When reason cannot reach, or make it out, yet faith must; and we must honour God in what we cannot understand: The Lord is righteous in all his waies, though his waies are past finding out. For,
1. He hears every cause before he judges. He doth not judge one side, before he knows the other, or judge any man before he hath heard him fully out: We see both (Gen. 11. and Gen. 18.) in those two great acts of justice, when God confounded the builders of Babel, and when he destroyed Sodom, I will go down and see whether it be altogether according to the report that is come up unto me. God needs no intelligence to be brought him unto heaven: neither doth he that fills all places go to any place to inform himself: but he speaks thus, to note how exact he is in point of justice; To show, that he deals with the children of men, as a man: who, hearing a report of such a thing done, saith, I will not judge of it by what I hear, but I will go see whether it be so or no. Without evidence of the fact, the sentence cannot be just, though it may be right.
1. He hears every cause before he judges. He doth not judge one side, before he knows the other, or judge any man before he hath heard him fully out: We see both (Gen. 11. and Gen. 18.) in those two great acts of justice, when God confounded the builders of Babel, and when he destroyed Sodome, I will goe down and see whether it be altogether according to the report that is come up unto me. God needs no intelligence to be brought him unto heaven: neither doth he that fils all places goe to any place to enform himself: but he speaks thus, to note how exact he is in point of justice; To shew, that he deals with the children of men, as a man: who, hearing a report of such a thing done, saith, I will not judge of it by what I hear, but I will goe see whether it be so or no. Without evidence of the fact, the sentence cannot be just, though it may be right.