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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.
1The word here used for doing wickedly, signifies two things; First, to pronounce any person wicked; and Secondly, to do any thing which is wicked; both these often meet together. For in many cases to pronounce a person wicked, is to do a wicked thing; he that condemneth a just person, pronounceth him wicked, and what thing can be done more wickedly then that? Some take the word in that sense here, as a denial that God either hath done, or ever will condemn the innocent. There are two things wherein men do very wickedly, with respect to the persons of men, both which the Lord abhors. First, when they condemn the innocent. Secondly, when they acquit or clear the guilty. The former way of doing wickedly, is chiefly removed from God here by Elihu, as the latter is directly and expressly by himself (Exod: 34.7.) The Lord, the Lord, &c. that will by no means clear the guilty. To pronounce a guilty person innocent, or an innocent person guilty, if ignorantly done, is a great piece of weakness, and if knowingly done, is a great piece of wickedness. ⟨p. 571⟩Yet, because the latter part of the verse speaks particularly to clear God from wrong Judgement, therefore, I conceive, we may better expound this former part of it more largely, as a general denial of any evil act whatsoever, done by God. Surely God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert Judgement.
1The word here used for doing wickedly, signifies two things; First, to pronounce any person wicked; and Secondly, to doe any thing which is wicked; both these often meete together. For in many cases to pronounce a person wicked, is to doe a wicked thing; he that condemneth a just person, pronounceth him wicked, and what thing can be done more wickedly then that? Some take the word in that sence here, as a deniall that God either hath done, or ever will condemne the innocent. There are two things wherein men doe very wickedly, with respect to the persons of men, both which the Lord abhorres. First, when they condemne the innocent. Secondly, when they acquit or cleare the guilty. The former way of doing wickedly, is chiefly removed from God here by Elihu, as the latter is directly and expressly by himselfe (Exod: 34.7.) The Lord, the Lord, &c. that will by no meanes cleare the guilty. To pronounce a guilty person innocent, or an innocent person guilty, if ignorantly done, is a great piece of weaknesse, and if knowingly done, is a great piece of wickednesse.