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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.
Secondly, This once speaking,1 notes the speaking of a thing so sufficiently or fully, that there is enough said at once, and so no more needs be said. The vulgar translation takes up this sense, God hath spoken once (that is, he hath spoken fully or sufficiently for mans instruction and admonition at once, and therefore he translates the latter part of the verse, thus; And he doth not repeat it the second time. That which is done at once sufficiently, needs not be done a second time; This is a truth; There is a sufficiency and a fullness in the word of God once spoken, there needs nothing to be added; or as others expound this translation. When once God speaks, that is, resolves and determines a thing, he doth not (as man who often repents of what he hath purposed) bring it into a second consideration, for he cannot err, and therefore he needs decree but once. But though this be a truth, yet I do not conceive it to be the meaning of this place, because it doth not well agree with what goes before, and less with that which followeth at the 29th verse; Lo all these things worketh God oftentimes, or (as our Margin hath it) twice and thrice with man. And therefore here Elihu rather intimates the variety of those ways by which God reveals himself to man, then the sufficiency of any one of them. For though we grant any one of them sufficient, yet God out of his abundant goodness is pleased to reveal himself more ways then one, and more times then once.
Secondly, This once speaking,1 notes the speaking of a thing so sufficiently or fully, that there is enough sayd at once, and so no more needs be sayd. The vulgar translation takes up this sence, God hath spoken once (that is, he hath spoken fully or sufficiently for mans instruction and admonition at once, and therefore he translates the latter part of the verse, thus; And he doth not repeate it the second time. That which is done at once sufficiently, needs not be done a second time; This is a truth; There is a sufficiency and a fullnesse in the word of God once spoken, there needs nothing to be added; or as others expound this translation. When once God speakes, that is, resolves and determines a thing, he doth not (as man who often repents of what he hath purposed) bring it into a second consideration, for he cannot erre, and therefore he needs decree but once. But though this be a truth, yet I doe not conceive it to be the meaning of this place, because it doth not well agree with what goes before, and lesse with that which followeth at the 29th verse; Loe all these things worketh God oftentimes, or (as our Margin hath it) twice and thrice with man. And therefore here Elihu rather intimates the variety of those wayes by which God reveales himselfe to man, then the sufficiency of any one of them. For though we grant any one of them sufficient, yet God out of his abundant goodnesse is pleased to reveale himselfe more wayes then one, and more times then once.