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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 36 › Verses 11-12
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They who are good in their state, may often fail in doing that which is good; for of those this Text yet speaks, and is generally interpreted. The Hypocrite in heart is spoken of in the next verse, but here Elihu is speaking of the righteous, and because he is so, therefore by this disobedience cannot be meant an obstinate rebellion, but a sloth or carelessness in attending to the Call of God, for the amendment of some evil in their lives. If they obey not:
They who are good in their state, may often fail in doing that which is good; for of those this Text yet speaks, and is generally interpreted. The Hypocrite in heart is spoken of in the next verse, but here Elihu is speaking of the righteous, and because he is so, therefore by this disobedience cannot be meant an obstinate rebellion, but a sloth or carelesness in attending to the Call of God, for the amendment of some evil in their lives. If they obey not:
Hence Note; The calls and commands of God are not always obeyed, no not by good men, not by the righteous.
Hence Note; The calls and commands of God are not alwayes obeyed, no not by good men, not by the righteous.
The call and command of God is not at all obeyed by the wicked, and it is not always obeyed by the righteous. The righteous sometimes hear the word, but do not answer it, and sometimes they feel the rod, and do not attend it; they cry out of the smart of the rod, and of the sores which the lashes of the rod have made upon them, they weep over, or because of their sores, yet they do not presently give glory to God by obeying him, and leaving their sins, I mean as to that special point of duty in which God would have them obey him, and as to those special sins which God by that affliction calls upon them to leave. Many good men do not presently understand the purpose of God in this or that affliction; and while it is so with them, they must needs fail in answerableness to it. I know every godly man hath a general bent to obey God and serve him. It is not with the godly in their afflictions as with the wicked under theirs, of whom the Prophet speaks, (