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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
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The first part of this Chapter, is reprehensory. In the former context two points of reproof were opened: First Jobs supposed folly in the second and third Verses: Secondly, his wickedness, in the fourth, both which were aggravated in the fifth and sixth.
THe first part of this Chapter, is reprehensory. In the former context two points of reproofe were opened: First Jobs supposed folly in the second and third Verses: Secondly, his wickednesse, in the fourth, both which were aggravated in the fifth and sixth.
In this Context Eliphaz gives him a third and a fourth reproof; a third, for the high conceit he had of himself, and a fourth, for the low conceit he had of the comforts of God, tendered to him by his Friends; he reproves him for the high conceit he had of himself, in two things: First, as if Job had thought his experience greater then any mans, Art thou the first man that was borne? &c. Vers. 7. Secondly, as if he had thought himself immediately inspired, Hast thou heard the secret of God, &c. Vers. 8.
In this Context Eliphaz gives him a third and a fourth reproofe; a third, for the high conceit he had of himselfe, and a fourth, for the low conceit he had of the comforts of God, tendered to him by his Freinds; he reproves him for the high conceit he had of himselfe, in two things: First, as if Job had thought his experience greater then any mans, Art thou the first man that was borne? &c. Vers. 7. Secondly, as if he had thought himselfe immediately inspired, Hast thou heard the secret of God, &c. Vers. 8.
This he illustrates by a twofold opposition in the ninth and tenth Verses; First, by the opposition of himself and his Friends in point of knowledge and understanding unto Job: As if he had said, Thou lookest upon us as underlings, as men unworthy to carry thy Books after thee, or to be named the same day, but what knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, which is not in us? Vers. 9. Thou art not so weighty, but we hope we may very well balance thee, and say (without pride or partiality) that our parts are as good as thine. Secondly, by the opposition of their party to him and his, Vers. 10. With us are both the grey-headed, and very aged men, much elder then thy Father: As if he had said, Our party equals thine, as well as our