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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, As to that particular which Elihu chargeth Job with.
Note.
If the Lord should not reward those that serve him, and delight in him, he were uxrighteous.
(Heb: 6.10.) God is not unrighteous to forget your labour of love; He is not unrighteous to forget it, that is, not to recompense it; by forgetting it, he doth not mean the letting of it slip out of his mind, but the not making a due return to it, or the not giving it a just reward. It is unrighteousness in God not to reward those who serve him, because he hath promised to reward them. Say to the righteous, it shall be well with him (Isa: 3.10.) The promises run to it, all the Scripture over; and as it would be unrighteousness in God not to reward those that do well; so not to pardon them that have done ill when they confess their evil deeds, because he hath promised to pardon them; and therefore the Scripture saith (1 John 1.9.) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins. The Scripture doth not say, he is merciful to forgive us our sins, (though mercy act to the highest in the forgiveness of sin) but he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins; and the reason why the Scripture saith so, is because forgiveness of sin (in case of confession) is under a promise. To come short of our promises, is to be unrighteous; promises are bonds upon the promiser, and oblige to performance.