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…

One of the Rabbins glosseth it thus, and the Original reaches it, Some lye, some enchantment, or witchery hath seized upon thee, though thou pretendest truth. The Apostle speaks to this sense (Gal. 3.1.) O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that you should not receive the truth: Witchery or Enchantment gives a secret wound. Is there any secret thing with thee? Hast thou any secret comfort for thy self, any secret conceit of thy self, any secret sin in thy bosom hindering the effectual working, or due prizing of those cordials which we have given thee?

One of the Rabbins glosseth it thus, and the Originall reaches it, Some lye, some inchantment, or witchery hath seized upon thee, though thou pretendest truth. The Apostle speakes to this sense (Gal. 3.1.) O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that you should not receive the truth: Witchery or Inchantment gives a secret wound. Is there any secret thing with thee? Hast thou any secret comfort for thy selfe, any secret conceit of thy selfe, any secret sinne in thy bosome hindering the effectuall working, or due prizing of those cordialls which we have given thee?

The first of these secret things never stands in the way of receiving consolation; he that hath hidden comfort in him, will not refuse spoken comforts; nor do I think that Eliphaz aimed at that, unless in scorn, as some resolve it:¹ but rather at one of or both the latter, though mistaken in both. Yet his suspicion gives us a ground for these two Observations.

The first of these secret things never stands in the way of receiving consolation; he that hath hidden comfort in him, will not refuse spoken comforts; nor doe I thinke that Eliphaz aymed at that, unlesse in scorne, as some resolve it:¹