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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.
1Some, I grant, expound this word justify, as used here by Elihu in a very bare and barren sense, as if it implied only thus much, I will do thee right, or I have no mind to do thee wrong; but surely the word is much more fruitful, and bears the signification of a great willingness in Elihu to render Job as fair as possibly he could, or as his cause would bear to all the world; he waited to understand so much of him and by him, as might enable him to say, he had neither spoken nor done any thing amiss.
1Some, I grant, expound this word justifie, as used here by Elihu in a very bare and barren sence, as if it implyed only thus much, I will doe thee right, or I have no mind to doe thee wrong; but surely the word is much more fruitfull, and beares the signification of a great willingness in Elihu to render Job as faire as possibly he could, or as his cause would beare to all the world; he waited to understand so much of him and by him, as might enable him to say, he had neither spoken nor done any thing amisse.
- 1Verbum justificare sumitur pro justitiam exercere, justè ac recte procedere. q. d. statui apud me juxta aequitatis leges tecum agere. Bold:
Hence note, First.
A good man is glad to see any mans cause or case prove good, or better then he thought it.