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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.
This affirmative act, To choose to us judgement, seems to imply a negative, the rejecting or laying aside of whatsoever is contrary to or a hindrance of Judgement; that is, the laying aside, First, of all animosities or undue heats of spirit; Secondly, of all prejudices and undue prepossessions; Thirdly, of all groundless suspicions and jealousies of the person we have to deal with, we can never choose judgement, till we are clear of all these.
This affirmative act, To chuse to us judgement, seemes to imply a negative, the rejecting or laying aside of whatsoever is contrary to or a hindrance of Judgement; that is, the laying aside, First, of all animosities or undue heates of spirit; Secondly, of all prejudices and undue prepossessions; Thirdly, of all groundlesse suspitions and jealousies of the person we have to deale with, we can never chuse judgement, till we are cleare of all these.
The original word rendered to choose, signifies in the noun, a ⟨p. 507⟩young man, a man in the flower of his age, in the best of his life, when his breasts (as Job spake at the twentieth Chapter) are full of milk, and his bones of marrow; and the reason is given, because our younger time is our choosing time, as to our way in this world; it should be so much more for heaven, or the things of another world. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, saith Solomon (Eccl: 12.1.) Some render those words expressly, In the days of thy elections or chusings; As if he had said, Remember to choose God in thy choosing days, when thou choosest thy calling in which to live, when thou choosest a wife,1 with whom to spend thy life, then be sure and remember above all things to choose God. When Moses was a young man, he was famous for this Choice (Heb: 11.25, 26.) He chose the reproach of Christ rather then the riches of Egypt; when he had all the riches and honours of Egypt presented to him, and courting him on the one side, and the reproach of Christ, affliction, poverty, disgrace, threatening him on the other side, he chose these rather; who would think that man wise who should choose the reproach of Christ (in appearance nothing but dirt and dross) before the riches of Egypt? yet Moses never showed his wisdom and learning so much in all the learning of the Egyptians, as he did in that Choice.