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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.
It should seem that Elihu and Job did not well agree about the definition of justice or righteousness. Job intending either civill righteousness towards men, or a righteousness imputed freely by God; but Elihu understood him of absolute perfect personal righteousness, which no man attains unto in this life. For when Job is charged with saying,1 I am righteous, he said it either as a justified person, or as a sanctified person. In the former sense, he might say he was perfectly righteous, and in the latter he said he was so, as to the sincerity and uprightness of his heart with God, and this he might say of himself without fault or blame; for God himself had said of him (Ch: 1.1.) that he was a man perfect, and upright.
It should seeme that Elihu and Job did not wel agree about the definition of justice or righteousness. Job intending either civill righteousness towards men, or a righteousness imputed freely by God; but Elihu understood him of absolute perfect personall righteousness, which no man attaines unto in this life. For when Job is charged with saying,1 I am righteous, he said it either as a justified person, or as a sanctified person. In the former sence, he might say he was perfectly righteous, and in the latter he sayd he was so, as to the sincerity and uprightness of his heart with God, and this he might say of himselfe without fault or blame; for God himselfe had sayd of him (Ch: 1.1.) that he was a man perfect, and upright.
- 1Intelligitur justitia per fidem mediatoris spiritus sancti Arrabone confirmata; Neque enim aliam potuit habero Job, qui suam claris verbis amoliretur. Coc:
I grant Job seems to say, (though he said it not, with that aim or intention, yet he seems to say) that he was even absolutely righteous, not only as justified but sanctified, while he said, (Chap: 31.7, 8.) If there be any blot cleaving to my hands, if my