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…

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.

But had Job any where asserted himselfe cleane? Did he not assert his owne uncleannesse, while he proclaimed that Negative Question (Chap. 14. v. 4.) Who can bring a cleane thing out of an uncleane, not one? Why then doth Eliphaz charge Job with this boast of cleannesse, who never thought himselfe cleane, as his discourse every where demonstrates, but under two notions: First, as righteous by another, or through Faith in the Messias: Secondly, as not scandalous to others by any notorious crime, or conscious to himselfe of any close hypocrisie; in any other sense then this, Job never asserted himselfe cleane, and in this he was, yea every beleever is cleane. Yet Eliphaz fastens it upon him, as if he had trim'd up himselfe with his owne ornaments, or had advanced the Doctrine of Selfe-perfection.

Hence observe in general.

Hence observe in generall.

That, When persons are engaged in a dispute, specially in a difficult controversy, they seldom understand, but seldomer report the truth of each others position.