A35537:1237
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of the book of Job being the substance of thirty-five lectures / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1664
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-fifth, Th… › Chapter 36 › Verses 24-25
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.
To remember in this place, is set (I conceive) in a double opposition: First, To forgetfulness of the duty here called for; remember and do not forget it. Secondly, To the slight performance of the duty here called for; the magnifying of the work of God.
Remember that thou magnify.
Remember that thou magnifie.
As if he had said, Be thou daily and duly affected with it, do not put it off with a little, or a bare remembrance; the matter is weighty, consider it fully. As if Elihu had said to Job, Thou hast much forgotten thy self, and gone off from that which is thy proper work. I have heard thee much complaining of the works of God, but thy work should have been to magnify the work of God. Though God hath cast thee down and laid thee low, yet thy business should have been to exalt the work of God; Remember, it would much better become thee to act another part than this; thou shouldest have acted the part of a magnifier of the work of God, not the part of a complainer gainst it. Remember that thou 1Magnify;
As if he had said, Be thou daily and duely affected with it, do not put it off with a little, or a bare remembrance; the matter is weighty, consider it fully. As if Elihu had said to Job, Thou hast much forgotten thy self, and gone off from that which is thy proper work. I have heard thee much complaining of the workes of God, but thy work should have been to magnifie the work of God. Though God hath cast thee down and laid thee low, yet thy business should have been to exalt the work of God; Remember, it would much better become thee to act another part than this; thou shouldest have acted the part of a magnifier of the work of God, not the part of a complainer gainst it. Remember that thou