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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
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 if any shall be found complaining like Job, though they do not formally deny, that God is greater rhen man, yet that interpretation and construction may justly be put upon their complaints.
And if any shall be found complaining like Job, though they doe not formally deny, that God is greater rhen man, yet that interpretation and construction may justly be put upon their complaints.
But some may here object and say, how was Job such a mirror, such a pattern of patience, as the Apostle James makes him (Chap: 5.11.) if he manifested so much impatience as might be interpreted by others, though not intended by him a denial of the Greatness of God?
But some may here object and say, how was Job such a mirror, such a patterne of patience, as the Apostle James makes him (Chap: 5.11.) if he manifested so much impatience as might be interpreted by others, though not intended by him a deniall of the Greatnesse of God?
I answer, though all agree (and the testimony of the Spirit of God is enough to confirm it, though all should not agree) that the patience of Job was exceeding great, yet no man may say (nor doth the Spirit of God, in Scripture, say it) that his patience was perfect; his patience was such as exceeded the most, yea (for ought that we know) the best of men, yet his was but the patience of a man, of a man compassed about with the like passions as other men. His patience was sincere and without hypocrisy, but his patience was not complete nor without infirmity; or his patience (we may say) was perfect as to the kind, but it was not perfect as to the degree. His patience deserved both commendation and imitation; yet he showed (at times) such impatience as deserved reproof, and should not be imitated but mortified and avoided. Good men do not only act less in goodness sometimes, but ill and much amiss. And while we see tallest Cedars fail (they shall not utterly fall, Job did not) Let him that thinketh he standeth (that is, who hath a strong opinion of his own strength) take heed lest he fall, (as the Apostle cautions him, 1 Cor: 10.12.) for even the impatient complaints of Job in his sufferings (like those sufferings of the Israelites for their sins spoken of in the former verses of that Chapter) fell from him for an ensample (or type) and are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.