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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.
From the matter of the judgement of God both upon people and Princes, Elihu proceeds to give the reason why the Lord deals thus with both; This he doth in the two verses following.
First, Because of their sin; They are workers of iniquity; in the close of the 22th verse.
Secondly, Because, as they are workers of iniquity, so God is fully acquainted with all their iniquity, &c. He seeth all their works, and the iniquity of their works, nothing can cover it or them from his fight; and therefore, as Elihu asserts the omniscience of God positively in the 21th verse, so negatively in the 22th verse, There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves. Now seeing the works of those Nations and Princes were naught, and the naughtiness of them was evident to God, how could he but punish them? And how just and righteous is he in punishing of them? By all this Elihu clears his general Assertion, or the point he drives at all this chapter over, namely, to prove that God is righteous; against which position, he tells us before, Job having spoken dangerously, he was engaged to maintain it vigorously; which he doth here, especially in that eminent branch of it, mentioned at the 19th verse, That he accepteth not the persons of Princes, nor regardeth the rich more then the poor. For, Princes as well as common people fall under his hand. So much for the parts and resolution of these three verses, as also for the general scope of them.