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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 40 › Verse 1-2
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Secondly thus, Should he be instructed who contends with the Almighty? This Translation may have a double interpretation. First, Surely that man deserves not to be instructed, but corrected, who contends with the Almighty; he deserves not to be taught, but to be punished. Should he be taught that contends with the Almighty? Doubtless only, as Gideon taught the men of Succoth, (Judg. 8.16.) with briars and thorns of the wilderness; that is, with severest chastisements. Secondly, Should he be instructed, that contends with the Almighty? That is, is a learner a competent match for God? is one that needs instruction and teaching, fit to take up the bucklers and enter the field of dispute with God? He had need to be a Master, not a Scholar; a Teacher, not a Learner, that undertakes to deal wi•h God. That man had need be skilled and well furnished, he had need be (as •e speak) his Crafts-master (and all little enough, yea all too little) who contends with the Almighty.
Secondly thus, Should he be instructed who contends with the Almighty? This Translation may have a double interpretation. First, Surely that man deserves not to be instructed, but corrected, who contends with the Almighty; he deserves not to be taught, but to be punished. Should he be taught that contends with the Almighty? Doubtless onely, as Gideon taught the men of Succoth, (Judg. 8.16.) with briars and thorns of the wilderness; that is, with severest chastisements. Secondly, Should he be instructed, that contends with the Almighty? That is, is a learner a competent match for God? is one that needs instruction and teaching, fit to take up the bucklers and enter the field of dispute with God? He had need to be a Master, not a Scholar; a Teacher, not a Learner, that undertakes to deal wi•h God. That man had need be skilled and well furnished, he had n•ed be (as •e speak) his Crafts-master (and all little enough, yea all too little) who contends with the Almighty.