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…

I will not go your way,¹ nor follow your example in this undertaking; I shall proceed upon other principles, and use other medium's then ye have done; such, I hope, as will be found much more effectual, and attain their end. We may take these words;

I will not goe your way,¹ nor follow your example in this undertaking; I shall proceed upon other principles, and use other medium's then ye have done; such, I hope, as will be found much more effectuall, and attaine their end. We may take these words;

1. 1Mihi integrum est respondere & quidem longe, aliter & ex alio fundamento, licet me directè Jobus non oppugnaverit. Scult: Non sequur vias vestrasin respondendo, sed alias efficaciores inveniam. Aquin:

I will not answer him with your speeches, two ways; First, as their speeches had too little light of reason in them; Secondly, as their speeches had too much fire of passion in them. As if he had said, I will use milder words and stronger arguments; I utterly disapprove the course you have taken with him; and therefore I will neither insist upon your theme to condemn him for an hypocrite, nor use your argument to prove it, because God hath thus sorely afflicted him; for I hold that a mere Sophism. I will not answer him with your speeches; That is, with speeches which have so much passion, and so little true reason in them, as to the point in hand. For though Jobs friends had spoken many things of much weight and reason considered abstractly, or in Thesi, yet when it came to the hypothesis, as appliable to Jobs special case, then their speeches had little or no weight in them. So that in this profession Elihu seems to promise these two things.

I will not answer him with your speeches, two wayes; First, as their speeches had too little light of reason in them; Secondly, as their speeches had too much fire of passion in them. As if he had sayd, I will use milder words and stronger arguments; I utterly disapprove the course you have taken with him; and therefore I will neither insist upon your theame to condemne him for an hypocrite, nor use your argument to prove it, because God hath thus sorely afflicted him; for I hold that a meere Sophisme. I will not answer him with your speeches; That is, with speeches which have so much passion, and so little true reason in them, as to the poynt in hand. For though Jobs friends had spoken many things of much weight and reason considered abstractly, or in Thesi, yet when it came to the hypothesis, as appliable to Jobs speciall case, then their speeches had little or no weight in them. So that in this profession Elihu seemes to promise these two things.