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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.
The Almighty, who hath power to do what he will, hath no will to do this evil. He will not pervert Judgement. 1The word signifies both to pervert and subvert, as also to bow, wrest, or put out of order, to mingle or blend those things together, which should be for ever separated, or, as we say, to mingle heaven and earth, yea heaven and hell together; so do they who mingle good and ill, right and wrong together. To pervert Judgement, is, to do all this, for then (which Abraham assured himself was far from God, Gen: 18.25.) The righteous are as the wicked, that is, the righteous fare as ill as the wicked, or the wicked fare as well as the righteous. But the Almighty will not pervert Judgement, that is, the right which belongs to any man, and therefore, he will-do every man right. We had the same position in terms (Chap: 8. 3d) and we have had this whole verse equivalently in the 10th of this Chapter, where Elihu said, Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. Here, only one verse intervening, El•hu reports and repeats the same matter again; but it is no needless or vain repetition, for which Christ reproved the prayer of the Heathens (Math: 6.7.) there are many repetitions in Scripture, but not one vain one; how often soever the same truth is repeated there, it hath its weight and use, not only as it is still a truth, but as it is a truth repeated. And therefore I shall give a threefold reason why this truth is here again repeated, which will also lead us to a fuller improvement of it.
The Almighty, who hath power to doe what he will, hath no will to doe this evill. He will not pervert Judgement. 1The word signifies both to pervert and subvert, as also to bow, wrest, or put out of order, to mingle or blend those things together, which should be for ever separated, or, as we say, to mingle heaven and earth, yea heaven and hell together; so doe they who mingle good and ill, right and wrong together. To pervert Judgement, is, to doe all this, for then (which Abraham assured himselfe was farre from God, Gen: 18.25.) The righteous are as the wicked, that is, the righteous fare as ill as the wicked, or the wicked fare as well as the righteous. But the Almighty will not pervert Judgement, that is, the right which belongs to any man, and therefore, he will-doe every man right. We had the same position in termes (Chap: 8. 3d) and we have had this whole verse equivalenly in the 10th of this Chapter, where Elihu sayd, Far be it from God, that he should doe wickednesse, and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. Here, only one verse intervening, Elhu reports and repeats the same matter againe; but it is no needlesse or vaine repetition, for which Christ reproved the prayer of the Heathens (Math: 6.7.) there are many repetitions in Scripture, but not one vaine one; how often soever the same truth is repeated there, it hath its weight and use, not only as it is still a truth, but as it is a truth repeated. And therefore I shall give a threefold reason why this truth is here againe repeated, which will also lead us to a fuller improvement of it.