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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 1-3
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.
Souls without knowledge cannot open, but are apt to darken the Soul-counsels of God.
Sixthly, Inasmuch as God reproved Job for this,
Note; God will not take it well, if we speak improperly, darkly and unsafely of his Matters and Counsels, though our minds be honest, and our meaning good in what we speak.
We had need be cautious what we say, and not talk at random about the things of God. Job, a holy and a wise man, had a peal rung in his ear, for speaking words without knowledge, words not duly poised and placed. There are some who will catch at, and take hold of every slip of the tongue, they will make a man an offender for a word, which hath no real ground of offence in it; (as the Prophet spake, Isa. 29.11.) God may justly make a man an offender for a word, which he thought was without offence.
We had need be cautious what we say, and not talk at random about the things of God. Job, a holy and a wise man, had a peal rung in his ear, for speaking words without knowledge, words not duly poized and placed. There are some who will catch at, and take hold of every slip of the tongue, they will make a man an offender for a word, which hath no real ground of offence in it; (as the Prophet spake,