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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 37 › Verses 23-24
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Some men have no Justice at all in them; though their office and place be to do Justice, yet they have no•hing of justice, no tincture of it in them; They neither fear God nor regard ma•, to do him any justice, as the unjust Judge is described (Luk. 18.2.) and with most Justice is a very scarce Commodity, they have but a very little of it, and they distribute it very poorly and sparingly. Where almost is the man to be found that hath plenty of justice ⟨p. 627⟩in himself, and distributes it plentifully to others? There was surely a great scarcity of Justice in the Justicers of Jerusalem, when the Lord by his Prophet (Jer. 5.1.) offered to pardon the whole City, if upon the sending forth of his W•it of Enquiry, the name of any one man could be returned that executed Judgment. O that Dearth of Justice! and in what place may we hope to find plenty of justice among men, when so little of it was to be found in Jerusalem, the City of God? yet this may comfort us, that though there be little of it in or among men, there is plenty of it in God. And that there is plenty of justice in God, I would demonstrate these five ways.
Some men have no Justice at all in them; though their office and place be to do J•s•ice, yet they have no•hing of justice, no tincture of it in them; They neither feare God nor regard ma•, to do him any justice, as the unjus• Judge is described (Luk. 18.2.) and with most Justice is a very •carce Commodity, they have but a very little of it, and they dis••ibute it very poorly and sparingly. Where almost is the man to be found that hath plenty of justice ⟨p. 627⟩