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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.
Secondly, Note hence; When men are obstinate and will not be reclaimed, it is good to give over.
Why should they who in any kind are absolutely resolved, be ⟨p. 8⟩further moved? (Acts 21.14.) When Pauls friends saw he would not be persuaded, they ceased: they had used much persuasion to keep him from going up to Jerusalem, because of the sufferings that were prophesied should befall him there, yet when he stood out, in an holy obstinacy against them, clothed with a gracious spirit of courage to suffer for Christ; When he would not be persuaded they ceased, saying, the will of the Lord be done. As it was the height of Pauls holiness that he would not be persuaded, he was obstinate for Gods cause, or for the doing of a duty; so it is the height of many mens wickedness that they will not be persuaded, they are obstinate against God, or against the doing of their duty; Such as are infected with the lust of contending, will maintain that opinion pertinaciously, which they cannot maintain truly. As some strive for the love of victory, rather then of truth; so others strive because they love strife even more then victory, and had rather contend then conquer, because that puts an end to strife. In such cases they do best who do no more; And if Jobs case had been such, if he had held up the discourse, not for truth but for victory, or because he would have the last word, like a clamorous Sophister, who hath always somewhat to say, though nothing to the purpose; In that case, I say, Jobs friends had done wisely in ceasing to answer; They indeed did well upon their own supposition, though as to the truth of Jobs condition they failed greatly. Job was not a man of that spirit, he that persists in holding and defending truth, is not obstinate but constant.
Why should they who in any kind are absolutely resolved, be ⟨p. 8⟩further moved? (