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…

Job had spoken the same language before (Chap. 7.17.) What is man that thou art thus mindful of him, &c. He also empties man of all worth, which should attract the least respect from God upon him: What is man? puts a fivefold slight upon man.

Job had spoken the same language before (Chap. 7.17.) What is man that thou art thus mindfull of him, &c. He also empties man of all worth, which should attract the least respect from God upon him: What is man? puts a fivefold slight upon man.

First, In his nature: Secondly, In his birth. Thirdly, In the matter out of which he was made. Fourthly, In reference to his present condition. Fifthly, and chiefly, In reference to his corruption, or sinful depravation, What is man that he should be clean?

First, In his nature: Secondly, In his birth. Thirdly, In the matter out of which he was made. Fourthly, In reference to his present condition. Fifthly, and chiefly, In reference to his corruption, or sinfull depravation, What is man that hee should be cleane?

But had Job any where asserted himself clean? Did he not assert his own uncleanness, while he proclaimed that Negative Question (Chap. 14. v. 4.) Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean, not one? Why then doth Eliphaz charge Job with this boast of cleanness, who never thought himself clean, as his discourse every where demonstrates, but under two notions: First, as righteous by another, or through Faith in the Messiah: Secondly, as not scandalous to others by any notorious crime, or conscious to himself of any close hypocrisy; in any other sense then this, Job never asserted himself clean, and in this he was, yea every believer is clean. Yet Eliphaz fastens it upon him, as if he had trimmed up himself with his own ornaments, or had advanced the Doctrine of Self-perfection.