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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 5
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.
Thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity.
Observe Secondly, There are some iniquities which are more properly ours then some others are. Thine iniquity: Job had (as Eliphaz seems to suggest) a kind of peculiarity in it. As God owns some people in a special manner; though all the people of the earth be his, yet they are his beloved people: So ⟨p. 18⟩man owns some sin in a special manner; though a corrupt heart hath a relation to all the sins in the World, yet some one is his beloved sin; and may be called by way of eminency, his iniquity. 'Tis his, as his Houses and Lands, as the Money in his Purse, and the Garments on his back are his.
Observe Secondly, There are some iniquities which are more properly ours then some others are. Thine iniquity: Job had (as Eliphaz seemes to suggest) a kind of peculiarity in it. As God ownes some people in a speciall manner; though all the people of the earth be his, yet they are his beloved people: So ⟨p. 18⟩man ownes some sin in a speciall manner; though a corrupt heart hath a relation to all the sins in the World, yet some one is his beloved sin; and may be called by way of emminency, his iniquity. 'Tis his, as his Houses and Lands, as the Money in his Purse, and the Garments on his backe are his.
Observe thirdly, Every man is most ready to act and utter his special iniquity: Thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity. There are some sins in a mans heart, which possibly, he may never utter all his days: but he must be talking of, or acting his beloved one. Hence David speaks it, as a high work of grace in him (