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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 34
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Fourthly, Gifts of bounty and grace, from Superiors to those who are below them, to testify their favour to them, and that they are well-pleased in them, or in their services; There is no hurt either in giving or receiving these gifts. These are only testimonies of respect from man to man, and tend only to maintain humane society.
Fourthly, Gifts of bounty and grace, from Superiours to those who are below them, to testifie their favour to them, and that they are wel-pleased in them, or in their services; There is no hurt either in giving or receiving these gifts. These are onely testimonies of respect from man to man, and tend onely to maintaine humane society.
But there is a fifth sort of Gifts, which we may call gifts of injury, or in the language of the Text, Gifts of Bribery: These are given, either to pervert, or delay Justice, and to overthrow a man and his cause.
The Hebrew expresseth a gift in general, and a bribe, by the same word,1 because, as all bribes are gifts; so very many gifts are bribes. Gifts of charity, of friendship, of duty, of favour, are but few in comparison of bribing gifts. And 'tis exceeding hard for any man that is interested in affairs of Judgement between man and man, to receive a gift from either of them, and not be bribed by it, to transgress the rules of equity and righteousness. A gift transforms the Judge into a party, or makes (as the Hebrew critics tell us upon that word) the Judge and party to be but one person.
The Hebrew expresseth a gift in generall, and a bribe, by the same word,1