A35535:1066
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.
Again, As this text showeth us Job striving with God, so it showeth us Elihu striving with or questioning Job about it. This question or expostulation, Why dost thou strive with him? was a chiding severe reproof of him for doing so.
Againe, As this text sheweth us Job striving with God, so it sheweth us Elihu striving with or questioning Job about it. This question or expostulation, Why dost thou strive with him? was a chideing severe reproofe of him for doing so.
Hence note.
For man to strive with God is most uncomely.
Doth it suite the condition, or become the state of man to do so? it doth not become man as a creature to strive with God, much less as a new creature, as a professed servant of God, as a Saint, as a Christian. We never act so unlike either creatures, or new creatures, Saints, and Christians, as when we strive with God. 'Tis a shame for a child to strive with his father, or for a servant to strive with his Master, how much more for a creature to strive with his Creator, man with God?