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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, To the soundness of it; If thou hast any thing of a sound understanding. The understandings of many are sick, and diseased, their understandings are tainted and infected with errors and mispersuasions. Now if thou hast any thing of a sound understanding left in thee, if there remain yet any strength in thy understanding, to apprehend the force of those arguments and reasons which I shall propose to convince thee by, hear this. Erroneous understandings are altogether unfit to entertain truth. As there must be a suitableness between the stomach and the meat, else it is not digested, so between the mind and the object, else it cannot be received.
First, To the soundness of it; If thou hast any thing of a sound understanding. The understandings of many are sicke, and diseased, their understandings are tainted and infected with errours and misperswasions. Now if thou hast any thing of a sound understanding left in thee, if there remaine yet any strength in thy understanding, to apprehend the force of those arguments and reasons which I shall propose to convince thee by, heare this. Erroneous understandings are altogether unfit to entertaine truth. As there must be a sutableness between the stomack and the meat, else it is not digested, so between the minde and the object, else it cannot be received.
Secondly, To the uprightness or impartiality of it; If thou hast understanding; that is, if thou hast an unbiased understanding; Sometimes the affections turn aside, and bribe the understanding; self-interest puts a blind upon the understanding. When a man hath a mind to that which is not right, he will have a mind to understand any thing that opposeth it.
Secondly, To the uprightness or impartiality of it; If thou hast understanding; that is, if thou hast an unbiassed understanding; Sometimes the affections turne aside, and bribe the understanding; self-interest puts a blinde upon the understanding. When a man hath a minde to that which is not right, he will have a minde to understand any thing that opposeth it.