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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.
Here a question will arise, and it will ask some pains to determine it; Was this true? did Job justify himself rather then God? Was it possible Job should do so? I shall give only a general answer to this question; Job did not justify himself rather then God, either explicitly, or intentionally, but by consequents he did. And though it be granted that Job gave just occasion of this sharp reproof by his rash and passionate speeches, uttered in the heat of dispute, and in the grief of his heart, yet it cannot be denied that Elihu did somewhat strain Jobs words, though not beyond their sense, yet beyond his sense, and gave them the hardest interpretation (somewhat beside the rule of charity) which they could bear, nor did he observe that meekness and moderation which might well have become him, to a man in that case. O how hard is it not to offend or do ill, while we are doing well!
Here a question will arise, and it will ask some paines to determine it; Was this true? did Job justifie himselfe rather then God? Was it possible Job should do so? I shall give only a generall answer to this question; Job did not justifie himself rather then God, either explicitely, or intentionally, but by consequents he did. And though it be granted that Job gave just occasion of this sharp reproofe by his rash and passionate speeches, uttered in the heate of dispute, and in the grief of his heart, yet it cannot be denied that Elihu did somewhat strain Jobs words, though not beyond their sence, yet beyond his sence, and gave them the hardest interpretation (somewhat beside the rule of charity) which they could beare, nor did he observe that meeknesse and moderation which might well have become him, to a man in that case. O how hard is it not to offend or doe ill, while we are doing well!
To clear this a little further consider, There is a twofold straining of words; First, beyond the sense of the words spoken; Secondly, beyond the sense of the speaker. I do not say Elihu in affirming this of Job, strained his words beyond their sense, but he strained them beyond Jobs sense. Job spake words which might lay him under this censure, that he justified himself rather then God; But this was far from his intention; For doubtless he ⟨p. 17⟩