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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.
1Here Elihu expounds to us or gives us more particularly what those ways of God were which those men would not consider, as also what the sin of those mighty ones was, which provoked God, to strike them as wicked men in the open sight of others. The ways of God which they would not consider, were the ways of his righteousness and justice, of his compassion to and care for the poor, they went quite cross to those ways of God. For they caused the cry of the poor to come up to him. But do ungodly men bring the cry of the poor up to God? Certainly they have no such purpose, and therefore those words, So that they cause the cry of the poor to come up unto him,
1Here Elihu expounds to us or gives us more particularly what those wayes of God were which those men would not consider, as also what the sin of those mighty ones was, which provoked God, to strike them as wicked men in the open sight of others. The wayes of God which they would not consider, were the wayes of his righteousnesse and justice, of his compassion to and care for the poore, they went quite crosse to those wayes of God. For they caused the cry of the poore to come up to him. But doe ungodly men bring the cry of the poore up to God? Certainly they have no such purpose, and therefore those words, So that they cause the cry of the poore to come up unto him,
- 1Effectum hujus malitiae affectatae ostendit. Aquin:
Note only a consequent, of what those men did, not the intent of those men; they aimed at no such thing by their oppressing the poor, as that God should hear the cry of the poor, yea they hoped the cry of the poor should never come up to God. They would willingly have stopped the mouths of the poor, that they should not have cried to God, and presumed the ears of God would be stopped against their cry, let them cry as long as they would: they do not say to the poor, go and appeal to God, go make your moan to God, (yet some have been thus impudently blasphemous, when they have oppressed the poor, to bid them, go cry to their God) but here we are to understand it as the issue of the oppression, not as the desire of the oppressors. Their cruel and unrighteous dealing with the poor (like that of