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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 8
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Thirdly, Take the words according to the sense of Jobs friends, which Job also hints as meeting with their objection, They witness against me: that is, You use them, you bring them as witnesses against me:
Thirdly, Take the words according to the sense of Jobs freinds, which Job also hints as meeting with their objection, They witnesse against me: that is, You use them, you bring them as witnesses against me:
Then Note.
Great afflictions are looked on as proofs, or witnesses of great sins.
Great afflictions are looked on as proofes, or witnesses of great sins.
We no sooner hear of, or see a man under great afflictions, but our first thought is surely he hath committed some great sin. This is almost every mans suspicion; but it is an ill grounded suspicion. This point was spoken to (Chap. 10.17.) where Job tells the Lord, Thou hast renewed thy witnesses against me, &c. There 'twas showed how afflictions are brought in by God and man as a witness; and this was the greatest evidence, and (upon the matter) all the evidence which the Friends of Job brought against him, his wrinkles, and his leanness: I shall here only add this caution.