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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…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1650
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AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 16 › Verse 3
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.
They will speak on though it be the same thing, only in a new dress of words. They have store of words, though scarcity of matter; we may justly say to such, What emboldeneth you to answer? It is more then boldness, a kind of impudence in such to answer: pertinacy of spirit disdains to lay down the Bucklers. They who contend for victory, rather then for truth, will not be answered, how much soever they are answered: And they who are more loath be foiled, then willing to be rectified, will hardly submit to the plainest and clearest evidence.
They will speake on though it be the same thing, onely in a new dresse of words. They have store of words, though scarsity of matter; we may justly say to such, What emboldeneth you to answer? It is more then boldnesse, a kinde of impudence in such to answer: pertinacy of spirit disdaines to lay downe the Bucklers. They who contend for victory, rather then for truth, will not be answered, how much soever they are answered: And they who are more loath be foyled, then willing to bee rectified, will hardly submit to the plainest and clearest evidence.
The second reading is, What doth provoke thee to answer, 1or What embitters thy spirit that thou answerest? As if Job had said, Surely Eliphaz my fair discourse with thee, should have stopped the course of this severe proceeding with me before this time; thou hast loaded me with hard words, and uncharitable jealousies; but have I spoken provokingly, or bitterly to thee? My conscience tells me that I have not, and thou knowest I have not.
The second reading is, What doth provoke thee to answer, 1or What imbitters thy spirit that thou answerest? As if Job had said, Surely Eliphaz my fayre discourse with thee, should have stopped the course of this severe proceeding with me before this time; thou hast loaded me with hard words, and uncharitable jealousies; but have I spoken provokingly, or bitterly to thee? My conscience tells me that I have not, and thou knowest I have not.