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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.
First, That, as it is altogether sinful for any man to say, I am altogether without sin; (for 1 John 1.8.) If we say we have no sin, there is no truth in us; and he who saith (in that sense) I am righteous, doth but declare his own unrighteousness) so to speak much of our own righteousness and goodness (though we are both good and righteous) is evil and very blameable. For whereas Job said, I am righteous, he should rather have left others to say it, he should have been satisfied that he was so without saying so; and though it cannot be denied that Job was extremely urged to ⟨p. 516⟩it (as hath been showed more then once in opening this Book) and it had been but necessary for him to say it once or twice in his own defence, yet because he said it so often, it drew, and that deservedly, this censure or charge upon him.
First, That, as it is altogether sinfull for any man to say, I am altogether without sin; (for 1 John 1.8.) If we say we have no sin, there is no truth in us; and he who saith (in that sense) I am righteous, doth but declare his owne unrighteousness) so to speake much of our owne righteousness and goodness (though we are both good and righteous) is evill and very blameable. For whereas Job said, I am righteous, he should rather have left others to say it, he should have been satisfied that he was so without saying so; and though it cannot be denied that Job was extreamly urged to ⟨p. 516⟩it (as hath been shewed more then once in opening this Booke) and it had been but necessary for him to say it once or twice in his owne defence, yet because he sayd it so often, it drew, and that deservedly, this censure or charge upon him.
Hence take this corollary or inference.