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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.
Yet, in vindication of Elihu, it must be granted, Job gave him occasion to rebuke and blame what he had said, and that chiefly upon these three accounts.
First, Because he spake many things of himself which had an appearance of boasting, and so of vain speaking. A little truly said of our selves, or in our own commendation, may be thought too much, how much more, when we say much.
First, Because he spake many things of himselfe which had an appearance of boasting, and so of vaine speaking. A little truly sayd of our selves, or in our owne commendation, may be thought too much, how much more, when we say much.
Secondly, He spake such things as carried a show of overboldness with God. He did not observe his distance, as he ought, when he so earnestly pressed for a hearing to plead his cause before God; especially, when he so often complained of the severity of Gods procedure with him, with which Elihu taxeth him directly in the two verses following. Upon both these grounds Elihu thought (and was no doubt guided in it by the Spirit of God) to cut him to the quick, that Job might learn to speak more humbly of himself, and more temperately to God. And therefore
Secondly, He spake such things as carri'd a shew of overboldness with God. He did not observe his distance, as he ought, when he so earnestly pressed for a hearing to plead his cause before God; especially, when he so often complained of the severity of Gods proceedure with him, with which Elihu taxeth him directly in the two verses following. Upon both these grounds Elihu thought (and was no doubt guided in it by the Spirit of God) to cut him to the quick, that Job might learne to speake more humbly of himselfe, and more temperately to God. And therefore