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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 15 › Verse 14
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And he that is borne of a woman that he should be righteous?
Both parts of the Verse import the same thing.1 Clean and righteous are near of one signification, yet in this place we may distinguish them; To be clean, refers to the purity of mans nature; to be righteous, or to be justified (for so the word may be translated) refers to the integrity of his life; from both it follows, Man cannot merit, for he is not clean: he cannot answer God, for he is not righteous. As if Eliphaz had said, What is man that he should either have any cleanness in himself, or that he should be reputed and looked upon as righteous by others. (Both which he intends as applicable to Job.) If God should search thy nature, what art thou that thou shouldest be clean? If God should search thy life, what art thou that thou shouldest be righteous? The point of mans utter inability, to stand before God in himself for justification, hath been met with, more then once before, and therefore I will not stay upon that neither, only consider the form of expression, or the periphrasis of Man.
Both parts of the Verse import the same thing.1 Cleane and righteous are neer of one signification, yet in this place we may distinguish them; To be cleane, refers to the purity of mans nature; to be righteous, or to be justified (for so the word may be translated) refers to the integrity of his life; from both it followes, Man cannot merit, for he is not cleane: he cannot answer God, for he is not righteous. As if Eliphaz had sayd, What is man that hee should either have any cleannesse in himselfe, or that he should be reputed and looked upon as righteous by others. (Both which he intends as applycable to Job.) If God should search thy nature, what art thou that thou shouldest be cleane? If God should search thy life, what art thou that thou shouldest be righteous? The point of mans utter inability, to stand before God in himselfe for justification, hath been met with, more then once before, and therefore I will not stay upon that neither, onely consider the forme of expression, or the periphrasis of Man.