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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.
Vers. 18. Is it sit to say to a King, thou art wicked?
Those words, Is it fit; are not literally and expressly in the hebrew; and therefore some connect these two verses immediately with the former; Wilt thou condemn him that is most just? Who saith to a King, O thou wicked? and to Princes, O ye ungodly? That is,1 who is so just, that he spares not to tell the greatest Kings and Princes of their wickedness and ungodliness? Or as the Vulgar Translation hath it, Who saith to a King, O thou Apostate? I tell thee, Thou art fallen from that Justice and Righteousness which thou didst once exercise in thy Government. It is said of Nero, he had his five years wherein he governed excellently, but afterward he proved Apostate, cruelly tyrannizing over (instead of ruling) his people; as there are Apostates in Spirituals, so in Civils; an apostate is an hypocrite revealed, an hypocrite is an apostate veiled: God unveils hypocrites of all sorts, and will not fail sooner or later to reprove their Apostasy. It is better not to be good, then not to continue good: Backsliders are worse then they who never set one step in the ways of God and goodness.
Those words, Is it fit; are not literally and expresly in the hebrew; and therefore some connect these two verses immediately with the former; Wilt thou condemn him that is most just? Who saith to a King, O thou wicked? and to Princes, O ye ungodly? That is,1 who is so just, that he spares not to tell the greatest Kings and Princes of their wickedness and ungodliness? Or as the Vulgar Translation hath it, Who saith to a King, O thou Apostate? I tell thee, Thou art fallen from that Justice and Righteousness which thou didst once exercise in thy Government. It is said of Nero, he had his five years wherein he govern'd excellently, but afterward he proved Apostate, cruelly tyrannizing over (instead of ruling) his people; as there are Apostates in Spirituals, so in Civils; an apostate is an hypocrite revealed, an hypocrite is an apostate vail'd: God unvails hypocrites of all sorts, and will not fail sooner or later to reprove their Apostacy. It is better not to be good, then not to continue good: Backsliders are worse then they who never set one step in the wayes of God and goodness.