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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
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He that impartially reads over Jobs answers to Eliphaz, may find here and there a sour passage; but as we say Proverbially, You must give losers leave to speak. The wise Physician hears his Patient giving him uncomely language, yet will not hear it, much less retort or answer so again: They who are in pain must be borne with; though they provoke, it must not be called a provocation; and though they give offence, yet it must not be taken. When the Child cries, the Nurse sings: God himself bears with the manners of his people (so the word intimates, Acts 13.18.) as a Mother doth with a froward Child; and so should we with the frowardness of our weak and afflicted Brethren. So that in ⟨p. 224⟩this sense, the provocations which Job gave his Friends, were not to be reckoned as provocations; and he might well say to Eliphaz, What provoketh thee to answer? If I (in the case I am in) have spoken passionately, Wilt thou be provoked by it? Thou shouldest not. Thou oughtest to pass it by and cover it with the garment of charity.
He that impartially reads over Jobs answers to Eliphaz, may finde here and there a sowre passage; but as we say Proverbially, You must give loosers leave to speake. The wise Physitian heares his Patient giving him uncomely language, yet will not heare it, much lesse retort or answer so againe: They who are in paine must be borne with; though they provoke, it must not be called a provocation; and though they give offence, yet it must not be taken. When the Childe cryes, the Nurse sings: God himselfe beares with the manners of his people (so the word intimates, Acts 13.18.) as a Mother doth with a froward Childe; and so should we with the frowardnesse of our weake and afflicted Brethren. So that in ⟨p. 224⟩this sense, the provocations which Job gave his Freinds, were not to be reckoned as provocations; and he might well say to Eliphaz, What provoketh thee to answer? If I (in the case I am in) have spoken passionately, Wilt thou be provoked by it? Thou shouldest not. Thou oughtest to passe it by and cover it with the garment of charity.