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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
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We must not make a judgement from any one part of a discourse, we must take all together.
We must compare the first and last, the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and ending of what is said; We must look quite through. 'Tis not ingenuous to pick up this or that passage, to take a piece here, and a piece there; we can never make a true judgement, till the whole is laid together. As, many exceedingly mistake about the works of God, so about the words of men, because they judge the whole by this or that part: Whereas they should judge of the parts by the whole. As therefore we ought not to make conclusions about the providential works of God, till the last Act, or till all is concluded; so we must not judge the discourses of men, till the last word, or till they have concluded their discourse. Hear a man out, and then answer him.
We must compare the first and last, the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and ending of what is sayd; We must looke quite through. 'Tis not ingenuous to picke up this or that passage, to take a piece here, and a piece there; we can never make a true judgement, till the whole is layd together. As, many exceedingly mistake about the works of God, so about the words of men, because they judge the whole by this or that part: Whereas they should judge of the parts by the whole. As therefore we ought not to make conclusions about the providentiall works of God, till the last Act, or till all is concluded; so we must not judge the discourses of men, till the last word, or till they have concluded their discourse. Heare a man out, and then answer him.