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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.
Kings are supreme, they are clothed with Sovereign power over all persons within their Dominion; Is it therefore fit to use such course language, such down-right unhewn speeches in ⟨p. 622⟩any address to them? Is it fit to say to a King, Thou art wicked? The original word imports the worst sort, the most infamous among wicked men; So Mr Broughton renders, Is it meet that one say to a King, Belial? Some give it in the Vocative case, Is it meet for a subject to say to his Sovereign, O thou Belial! O thou wicked one? Dare any speak thus to a King?
Kings are supream, they are cloathed with Soveraigne power over all persons within their Dominion; Is it therefore fit to use such course language, such down-right unhewen speeches in ⟨p. 622⟩any address to them? Is it fit to say to a King, Thou art wicked? The original word imports the worst sort, the most infamous among wicked men; So Mr Broughton renders, Is it meet that one say to a King, Belial? Some give it in the Vocative case, Is it meet for a subject to say to his Soveraigne, O thou Belial! O thou wicked one? Dare any speak thus to a King?
This word Belial is often used in Scripture, to note, not only a wicked man in general, but an eminently wicked man, even a man in whom all wickedness is (as it were) centred and settled, the very lees and dregs of all men, who may be called wicked. When Jezebel procured and suborned two false witnesses against Naboth, it is said, There came in two men, children of Belial, (1 Kings 21.13.) and sate before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth in the presence of the people, saying, &c. These witnesses were perjured persons; to tell a lye is the worst of sins, what then is it to swear a lye? no word could reach the height of this wickedness more fully, then to call them children of Belial. When the Lord comforted the Church with the glad tidings of the Gospel, (