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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.
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 ⟨p. 719⟩Pharaoh with the Israelites) caused the cry of the poor to come up unto him.
Note only a consequent, of what those men did, not the intent of those men; they aymed at no such thing by their oppressing the poore, as that God should heare the cry of the poore, yea they hoped the cry of the poore should never come up to God. They would willingly have stopt the mouthes of the poore, that they should not have cryed to God, and presumed the eares of God would be stopt against their cry, let them cry as long as they would: they doe not say to the poore, goe and appeale to God, goe make your moane to God, (yet some have been thus impudently blasphemous, when they have opprest the poore, to bid them, goe 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 poore (like that of ⟨p. 719⟩Pharaoh with the Israelites) caused the cry of the poore to come up unto him.
Further, Some render the text, not as expressing (though supposing) the cry of the poor coming up to God, but as reflecting or turning back in sad effects upon their oppressors; So that they cause the cry of the poor to come upon him; that is, upon every one of them, meaning the wicked themselves; they cause the cry of the poor to come upon them, or pull down vengeance upon their own heads. Several learned Interpreters give that reading, taking the relative Him as a singular put for a plural distributively, upon him, that is, upon every one of them;