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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 note.
A good man seeks not victory but truth, and the good of those he deals with.
A good man seekes not victory but truth, and the good of those he deals with.
When he contends earnestly with others, he desires as earnestly that truth may gain by that contention. Where a spirit of strife & uncharitableness possesseth the minds of many men, they love to be vexing & trampling upon those they deal with, rather then helping and informing them. This evil spirit is the familiar of this age; That which the Apostle spake (Phil. 1.15.) of not a few who had the name of Gospel Ministers (some preach Christ even of envy and strife, and some also of good will; the one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely) the same may be said of many disputers and polemical writers; they do it enviously, they do it out of love to strife and contention, not out of love either to truth or to those with whom they contend and strive; this is a bad spirit, a spirit far unlike that which ruled in Elihu, who wished that the sharpest reprehensions he gave Job, might end in his justification. There should be such a spirit in man contending with man, as there is in God contending with man; who doth not thunder against sinners, because he would have them perish, or delighteth in their destruction; but doth it, first, to awaken them; secondly, to humble them; thirdly, to convert them; fourthly, to justify them; and lastly, to save them for ever. I write not these things (saith the Apostle, 1 Cor. 4.14.) to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. As if he had said, I intend not to asperse you, or throw dirt upon you, but only advise you to wipe off the dirt that is cast upon you, or to keep your selves out of the dirt. I would either be a means to cleanse you, or provoke you to preserve your selves clean.