An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

Job doth not accuse his Friends, as giving out false and erroneous Doctrine; for himself had heard and learned those things before; but he accuseth them for bringing proofs, which were not to the purpose, or which were in sufficient to prove their purpose: As if he said, I expected when you would produce some stronger arguments to maintain your opinion, or clearer answers unto mine: I waited for some new matter, and to have heard somewhat that I had not heard before, but you have deceived my expectation: For, I have heard many such things as these.

Job doth not accuse his Freinds, as giving out false and erroneous Doctrine; for himselfe had heard and learned those things before; but he accuseth them for bringing proofes, which were not to the purpose, or which were in sufficient to prove their purpose: As if he sayd, I expected when you would produce some stronger arguments to maintaine your opinion, or clearer answers unto mine: I waited for some new matter, and to have heard somewhat that I had not heard before, but you have deceived my expectation: For, I have heard many such things as these.

Hence Note.

First, Some truths are of very common observation: Who knoweth not such things as these? Every Child that hath been Catechised, ⟨p. 212⟩knows them. 'Tis no disparagement to any truth, that it hath been often heard, and is commonly known. The more common a truth is, the more weighty it may be. Yet,

First, Some truths are of very common observation: Who knoweth not such things as these? Every Childe that hath been Catechised, ⟨p. 212⟩