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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 23
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.
Here are three things to be cleared.
First, What is meant by knowing. Secondly, What by the day of darkness. Thirdly, What, by being ready at hand.
First, What is meant by knowing. Secondly, What by the day of darknesse. Thirdly, What, by being ready at hand.
To know, it is here opposed to an uncertain guess, or to conjecture; to know is as much as to be fully persuaded, to know, is to be assured; the highest act of faith is often expressed by knowledge.1 Hereby we know that we know him (1 John 2.4.) that is, hereby we are assured that we know him; so here, He knows, that is, he is assured; it is settled upon his spirit, that the day of darkness is ready at hand. This knowledge riseth not from reports abroad, but from his own breast; so the Septuagint translates, He knows in himself that evil shall be upon him; As a godly man hath a witness for him ⟨p. 117⟩in himself, so a wicked man hath a witness against him in himself.
To know, it is here opposed to an uncertaine guesse, or to conjecture; to know is as much as to be fully perswaded, to know, is to be assured; the highest act of faith is often expressed by knowledge.1 Hereby we know that we know him (1 John 2.4