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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.
Earthly Judges may err in judgment, but the Judge of all the earth cannot. God cannot do injustice through ignorance or mistake; for he is omniscient and knoweth all things; nor can he have a will to do unjustly, seeing his will is altogether just, and the rule or measure of all things that are just. As therefore he is not an idle Idol-god but most active in governing the World; so he is infinitely above the least failer in the government of it. The Sun shall sooner be turned into a cloud, and the morning light darken the earth, then any unrighteousness proceed from God; yea, when clouds and darkness are round about him (that is, when we by reason either of the obscureness or afflictivenesse of his dispensations can give no account of them, yet even then) righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his Throne; that is, his governing power abides unmoveably, or constantly (as in a habitation) within that blessed line and glorious sphere of righteousness. So then,1 the reasoning of Elihu from the universality and independency of the governing power of God, to the righteousness and equity of his government is not only probable, but demonstrative and unanswerable. He is alike mighty as the sole creator, and just as the supreme moderator of the World. If any man will presume to charge God with perverting judgment in governing the earth, that man saith in effect that he hath given God a charge over the earth; And if any man be so impiously and impudently presumptuous as to say that, let him come forth and answer this as peremptorily as truly denying question of Elihu; Who hath given him a charge over the earth?
Earthly Judges may erre in judgment, but the Judge of all the earth cannot. God cannot doe injustice through ignorance or mistake; for he is omniscient and knoweth all things; nor can he have a will to doe unjustly, seeing his will is altogether just, and the rule or measure of all things that are just. As therefore he is not an idle Idol-god but most active in governing the World; so he is infinitely above the least failer in the government of it. The Sun shall sooner be turned into a cloud, and the morning light darken the earth, then any unrighteousnesse proceed from God; yea, when clouds and darknesse are round about him (that is, when we by reason either of the obscurenesse or afflictivenesse of his dispensations can give no account of them, yet even then) righteousnesse and judgment are the habitation of his Throne; that is, his governing power abides unmoveably, or constantly (as in a habitation) within that blessed line and glorious spheare of righteousnesse. So then,