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 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.

First, That he would use stronger arguments then they had done; I will not use yours, that is, weak ones, I purpose to come better prepared to the Combat then you; For though Elihu doth sometimes use such arguments as they, yet he doth not use them to their end to prove that Job acted rebelliously, or like a ⟨p. 98⟩