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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
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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, Isa. 29.11.) God may justly make a man an offender for a word, which he thought was without offece.
Lastly, Consider, when God came to reprove Job, he did not charge him with any ill intentions, but with ill expressions. He indeed had darkened his Counsel by words Without knowledge, but God did not say he had a purpose and a mind to do it; nor did he say, that Job had spoken lastly, but that he had spoken truth obscurely. The Lord did not object hypocrisy or impiety against him, but imbecility; as not having handled the Judgements of God, nor delivered his own judgement clearly and prudently enough; but had huddled and put things so passionately and confusedly together, that some could not tell how to distinguish them from blasphemy.
Lastly, Consider, when God came to reprove Job, he did not charge him with iny ill intentions, but with ill expressions. He indeed had darkened his Counsel by words Without knowledge, but God did not say he had a purpose and a mind to do it; nor did he say, that Job had spoken lastly, but that he had spoken truth obscurely. The Lord did not object hypocrisie or impiety against him, but imbecility; as not having handled the Judgements of God, nor delivered his own judgement clearly and prudently enough; but had hudled and put things so passionately and confusedly together, that some could not tell how to distinguish them from blasphemy.