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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 7
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Vers. 7. But now he hath made me weary, thou hast made desolate all my company.
We may see (in this context) that the spirit of Job was much troubled, by the troublednesse of his speech. At this seventh Verse he speaks in the third Person, He hath made me weary: and before he gets to the end of it, he speaks in the second Person, Thou hast made desolate: In the eighth Verse, Thou hast filled me with wrinkles: In the ninth Verse, He teareth me in his wrath: The tenth Verse is Plural, They have gaped upon me: Strange kind of Grammar, sometimes in the third Person, sometimes in the second, sometimes in the Singular, sometimes in the Plural number; His mind was uneven, or unsettled, and so was his discourse. We must not play the Critics with the words of men in pain, nor submit their sentences to a Desk of Grammarians: Broken language, and incongruities of speech, do well enough become broken hearts, and wounded spirits: God will not call his Scholars in the School of affliction to the Ferula for such faults or false Latin falling from their mouths, either in prayer or conferences, while their hearts are true, and the language of their spirits pure.
We may see (in this context) that the spirit of Job vvas much troubled, by the troublednesse of his speech. At this seventh Verse he speakes in the third Person, He hath made me weary: and before he gets to the end of it, he speakes in the second Person, Thou hast made desolate: In the eighth Verse, Thou hast filled me with wrinkles: In the ninth Verse, He teareth me in his wrath: The tenth Verse is Plurall, They have gaped upon me: Strange kinde of Grammar, sometimes in the third Person, sometimes in the second, sometimes in the Singular, sometimes in the Plurall number; His minde was uneven, or unsetled, and so was his discourse. We must not play the Criticks with the words of men in paine, nor submit their sentences to a Deske of Grammarians: Broken language, and incongruities of speech, doe well enough become broken hearts, and wounded spirits: God will not call his Schollers in the Schoole of affliction to the Ferula for such faults or false Latine falling from their mouthes, either in prayer or conferences, while their hearts are true, and the language of their spirits pure.