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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.
Again, The word is rendered, Infirmities, failings, or lesser sins; that's another translation of the text, and 'tis a useful one; For as the former supposeth the Lord taking occasion, where none at all was given; so this supposeth him to take the least occasion. ⟨p. 217⟩As if Elihu supposed Job saying, Behold, he seeks out my little faults, 1my vacillations, my trippings, my stumblings, in a word, my infirmities. We may take them two ways; First, for his youthful sins, the slips of his youth. Secondly, for his daily sins, commonly called failings. As if Job had said, Though I can charge my self, and freely do with many sins and weaknesses, yet I am not a man chargeable with any crimes nor wickednesses, mine are no black nor bloody sins, no crimson, no scarlet sins; I have not sinned presumptuously, or with a high hand, I have not given scope to my lusts, nor indulged my corruptions. I have not pleased my self with displeasing God; nor hath the bent of my soul been to break his commandments, as bonds, yokes, or shackles put upon me by an enemy; I have not rejected his dominion or rule over me in any wilful defection or departure from his word. Yet notwithstanding God finds out my infirmities and failings, and urgeth them sorely against me, yea he deals with me as if I were his enemy, even for those sins which I have committed through inadvertency or mere humane frailty: Some Interpreters insist most upon this signification of the word, as if the matter which Elihu charged Job with, were that he should say God carried it towards him as an enemy for small faults or lesser sins. Nor do I see any thing which hinders the joining of this and the former reading together; for surely he seeks occasions to punish and vex another, who insists upon his lesser sins and imperfections, as if they were great and grievous crimes. From this latter or second sense of the word, Observe, First, in General.
Againe, The word is rendred, Infirmities, faylings, or lesser sins; that's another translation of the text, and 'tis a usefull one; For as the former supposeth the Lord taking occasion, where none at all was given; so this supposeth him to take the least occasion. ⟨p. 217⟩As if Elihu supposed Job saying, Behold, he seeks out my little faults,