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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 10
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God himself gave an honourable testimony of Job, there was none like him, he had no peer on earth, for holiness and uprightness; yet men gave testimony against him, as if he had been the scum of the World, for unholiness and hypocrisy. David, a man after Gods own heart, was (not only reproached, but) a reproach among all his Enemies, but especially among his neighbours (or nearest Friends both in habitation and relation) and he heard the slander of many (Psal. 31.11, 13.) The word of God was made a reproach to the Prophet Jeremiah (Chap. 20.8.) And the spirit was made a reproach to the Apostles (Acts 2.13.) Others mocked, saying, These men are full of new Wine: When indeed they were filled with the holy Ghost (Vers. 4.) Drunkards made Songs upon David, but the Apostles were sung about for Drunkards.
God himselfe gave an honourable testimony of Job, there was none like him, he had no peere on earth, for holinesse and uprightnesse; yet men gave testimony against him, as if he had been the scumm of the World, for unholinesse and hypocrisie. David, a man after Gods owne heart, was (not onely reproached, but) a reproach among all his Enemies, but especially among his neighbours (or neerest Freinds both in habitation and relation) and he heard the slander of many (Psal. 31.11, 13.) The word of God was made a reproach to the Prophet Jeremy (Chap. 20.8.) And the spirit was made a reproach to the Apostles (Acts 2.13.) Others mocked, saying, These men are full of new Wine: When indeed they were filled with the holy Ghost (Vers. 4.) Drunkards made Songs upon David, but the Apostles were sung about for Drunkards.
We are fools, saith Paul (that is, We are so called and accounted) for Christ, and being defamed (or as the word bears, blasphemed, to speak against any thing of God in Man, is blasphemy, as well as speaking directly against God) we entreat. And to show, that this was no prick with a Pin, or small scratch upon their credit, which made him complain; he tells us what this fame did amount unto, We are made as the filth of the World, and as the off-scouring of all things unto this day (