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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
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.
He respecteth not the wise in heart. No man can merit the least favour from God; his is free grace. All good cometh to us through the Son of his love, and it was merely of his love, that ever his Son came to us and dyed for us. Therefore let us not say, such a one was a good man, such a one was an holy man, therefore it was so and so with him. As what we are or can do cannot oblige him (when he sees cause) from giving us correction, so he is un-obliged as to what we are or can do, in giving us salvation, whether temporal or eternal. He respecteth not the wise in heart.
He respecteth not the wise in heart. No man can merit the least favour from God; his is free grace. All good cometh to us through the Son of his love, and it was meerly of his love, that ever his Son came to us and dyed for us. Therefore let us not say, such a one was a good man, such a one was an holy man, therefore it was so and so with him. As what we are or can do cannot oblige him (when he sees cause) from giving us correction, so he is un-obliged as to what we are or can do, in giving us salvation, whether temporal or eternal. He respecteth not the wise in heart.
There are yet two other readings of the words, which I shall set before the Reader, and then conclude all.
The word which we translate respecteth, 1signifying properly to see, some keep to that propriety of it, and render the text thus; He seeth not all wise in heart; that is, when the Lord looketh among the children of men, he doth not find many, yea scarce any of them wise. Thus the sense runs in connection with the former part of the verse, Men should be so wise as to fear God, and not dispute any of his proceedings; But he seeth or knoweth that all are not so; yea he findeth that a great many, even the most of men by much are very fools. The truth is, all men naturally are no better (