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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.
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⟩had rather a thousand times his tongue should have been cut out of his mouth, then to justify himself with it rather then God, or to speak a word to the disparagement of Gods Justice. So then it was hard for Elihu to charge Job thus, though Job had let fall some inconsiderate speeches, which administered occasion for such a charge. And as one of the Ancients speaks of difficulties and seeming contradictions in Scripture; Distinguish the times, and the Scriptures will accord; So distinguish the time of this dispute, take Job at the beginning of it, before he was teased and heated by his friends, and then he spake at a very low rate of himself; If I were righteous I would not know my own soul. But in the heat and towards the later end of this long dispute, Job gave too much advantage for such a construction to be put upon his words, that he justified himself rather then God; then which nothing can be said more unjustifiable, nor more reprovable.
To cleare this a little further consider, There is a twofold straining of words; First, beyond the sence of the words spoken; Secondly, beyond the sence of the speaker. I doe not say Elihu in affirming this of Job, strained his words beyond their sence, but he strained them beyond Jobs sence. Job spake words which might lay him under this censure, that he justified himselfe rather then God; But this was far from his intention; For doubtlesse he ⟨p. 17⟩had rather a thousand times his tongue should have been cut out of his mouth, then to justifie himselfe with it rather then God, or to speak a word to the disparagement of Gods Justice. So then it was hard for Elihu to charge Job thus, though Job had let fall some inconsiderate speeches, which administred occasion for such a charge. And as one of the Ancients speakes of difficulties and seeming contradictions in Scripture; Distinguish the times, and the Scriptures will accord; So distinguish the time of this dispute, take Job at the beginning of it, before he was teazed and heated by his friends, and then he spake at a very low rate of himselfe; If I were righteous I would not know my owne soule. But in the heat and towards the later end of this long dispute, Job gave too much advantage for such a construction to be put upon his words, that he justified himselfe rather then God; then which nothing can be said more unjustifiable, nor more reproveable.