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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 15 › Verse 10
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The scope of Elipqaz in these words may be reduced to this account: As if he had said, We need not depend on thy Authority or antiquity; For with us, that is, on our side, or of our party and opinion, there are men grey-headed, yea, very aged, much elder, not only then thy self, but, then thy Father. Therefore do not thou charge us with novelty, know, that we have received our Doctrine from venerable Ancestors; if thou hast learned these things of thy Father, and drunk in thy opinion from the Aged, so have we: Nor do we esteem the Tenets of our fore-fathers merely by the number of days which they lived, but by the wisdom and piety with which they were enriched.
The scope of Elipqaz in these words may be reduced to this account: As if he had sayd, We need not depend on thy Authority or antiquity; For with us, that is, on our side, or of our party and opinion, there are men gray-headed, yea, very aged, much elder, not onely then thy selfe, but, then thy Father. Therefore doe not thou charge us with novelty, know, that we have received our Doctrine from venerable Ancestors; if thou hast learned these things of thy Father, and drunke in thy opinion from the Aged, so have we: Nor doe we esteeme the Tenets of our fore-fathers meerely by the number of dayes which they lived, but by the wisedome and piety with which they were enriched.
It is observable in Scripture, that Teman (from whence Eliphaz came) was a famous School of Learning (Jer. 49.7.) Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, is wisdom no more in Teman? He ⟨p. 32⟩speaks of it, as of a known place for knowledge and wisdom; What? Is wisdom no more in Teman? As if we in England should say, Is there no more learning at Oxford or Cambridge? are the lights extinguished, and the fountains dry? Thus Eliphaz asserts that his abettors and instructors in the opinion he maintained, were both old, and learned old men.
It is observable in Scripture, that Teman (from whence Eliphaz came) was a famous Schoole of Learning (