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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, by a flat denial of it. Secondly, by a tedious delaying of it. Thirdly, by punishing where there is no fault. Fourthly, by not rewarding where there is desert. Fifthly, Justice or right is distorted, by giving the same or a-like award to those who are unlike, or (in their acts or deserts, whether good or bad) not the same. To do any of these perverse or crooked things is the doing of iniquity, or the perverting of Justice. All these Elihu removeth far from God, while he saith, Far be it from the Almighty that he should commit iniquity. God will not, cannot commit iniquity, either by denying or delaying justice, either by not punishing or rewarding where there is cause, or by dealing out alike to those in whose doing and dispositions there is an utter unlikeness. Far be it from the Almighty, that he should commit any of these iniquities.
First, by a flat denyall of it. Secondly, by a tedious delaying of it. Thirdly, by punishing where there is no fault. Fourthly, by not rewarding where there is desert. Fifthly, Justice or right is distorted, by giving the same or a-like award to those who are unlike, or (in their acts or deserts, whether good or bad) not the same. To doe any of these perverse or crooked things is the doing of iniquity, or the perverting of Justice. All these Elihu removeth farre from God, while he saith, Farre be it from the Almighty that he should commit iniquity. God will not, cannot commit iniquity, either by denying or delaying justice, either by not punishing or rewarding where there is cause, or by dealing out alike to those in whose doing and dispositions there is an utter unlikeness. Farre be it from the Almighty, that he should commit any of these iniquities.
Hence note.
First, To do any act of injustice is wickedness.