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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 4
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Paul and his fellow-Apostles had wit and parts sufficient to oppose the truth, yet he saith (2 Cor. 13.8.) We can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. Paul was a great doer, and he saith (Phil. 4.13.) I can do all things through Christ strengthening of me; but Paul could do nothing to the dishonour of Christ. Doubtless Paul could have maintained an argument, and drive on an objection as far as another man, against the truth, if he would have set himself to it, and have made that his business; but he had not a mind to do it: The bent of his spirit did not lye that way, he was all for Christ, and the Gospel; he was a Giant for the truth, but an Infant, a weakling, as weak as water against it; he had neither an understanding to conceive, nor a tongue to speak to the disservice of Jesus Christ.
Paul and his fellow-Apostles had wit and parts sufficient to oppose the truth, yet he saith (2 Cor. 13.8.) We can doe nothing against the truth, but for the truth. Paul was a great doer, and he saith (Phil. 4.13.) I can doe all things through Christ strengthening of me; but Paul could doe nothing to the dishonour of Christ. Doubtlesse Paul could have maintained an argument, and drive on an objection as farr as another man, against the truth, if he would have set himselfe to it, and have made that his businesse; but hee had not a minde to doe it: The bent of his spirit did not lye that way, hee was all for Christ, and the Gospell; he was a Giant for the truth, but an Infant, a weakling, as weake as water against it; hee had neither an understanding to conceive, nor a tongue to speake to the disservice of Jesus Christ.
It is a good observation of one of the Ancients, upon this place,1