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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 35 › Verses 1-3
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It is very usual with those who accuse, or oppose others, to take things doubtful for certainties, their own conjectures for the assertions of their adversary, and every thing which hath a likeness to an error, to be error. Elihu might have spoken more favourably to Job, 1he might have construed his sayings more candidly than he did: Had he taken Jobs words with a grain of Salt (as we speak) he needed not to have put so much Gall and Wormwood into his own: Had he not interpreted Jobs complaints strictly, according to the sound, or letter, but considered them with his scope, his aim, and purpose in speaking so, together with the extreme pain of his body, and anguish of his soul, when he spake so, he had never given him such cutting answers.
It is very usual with those who accuse, or oppose others, to take things doubtful for certainties, their own conjectures for the assertions of their adversarie, and every thing which hath a likenesse to an errour, to be errour. Elihu might have spoken more favourably to Job, 1he might have construed his sayings more candidly than he did: Had he taken Jobs words with a grain of Salt (as we speak) he needed not to have put so much Gall and Wormwood into his own: Had he not interpreted Jobs complaints strictly, according to the sound, or letter, but considered them with his scope, his aime, and purpose in speaking so, together with the extream pain of his body, and anguish of his soul, when he spake so, he had never given him such cutting answers.
- 1In disputando cavendum, ne ex dictis adversarii per falsam consequentiam absurda deducamus, quibus illum gravamus, qua in re hic peccavit Elihu. Pisc.
But God justly, and in much wisdom, sharpened the spirit of Elihu, to speak cutting words to Job, that Job feeling the smart, might be made sensible of his error, and at last be brought low, and broken under his hand. Mild words may skin a sore before 'tis searched to the bottom, and so not only retard the Cure, but endanger the Patient. The holy Apostle fore-seeing the murmurings, quarrels and disputes which flesh and blood would make about Election or Predestination, doth not go about so much to answer them by Reason, as to repress them by a strong Reproof, and vehement Objurgation, (