A35473:1561
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 15
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That is, I have humbly submitted my self to receive, and entertain those saddest dispensations.
That is, I have humbly submitted my selfe to receive, and entertaine those saddest dispensations.
Hence Observe.
That the surest way to confute the censures, and wipe off the aspersions which are cast upon us, is to show our selves doing contrary to what others are speaking of us.
That the surest way to confute the censures, and wipe off the aspersions which are cast upon us, is to shew our selves doing contrary to what others are speaking of us.
A practical answer is the strongest answer; we may speak more for our selves by our hands, then we can do by our tongues in many cases. The Papists mouths are stopped (who call us Solifidians) when they see Protestants forward in, and zealous for good works: He that is accused of uncharitableness, may best free himself from that charge, by giving freely to the poor; and he that is accused of injustice, may soonest do himself right, by showing that he hath done right to every man. Bare denials that we have done evil, are nothing; but when our doing of good appears, who can deny it? The old Philosopher answered him that denied motion, by rising up and walking, not by arguing: Job answered Eliphaz, who affirmed that he turned his spirit, and stretched out his hand against God, by falling down and submitting to it. I have sowed sack-cloth upon my skin, &c.