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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,1 There is a contending with God by force of Argument, or by reasonings. This I conceive is here meant; Job was often found in these contendings with God. But shall any think to logic it with God? to enter a dispute with God? to argue with or reply upon him, as the Apostle speaks (Rom. 9.20.) O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Arguing and replying are a kind of contending, and this is of two sorts;
Secondly,1 There is a contending with God by force of Argument, or by reasonings. This I conceive is here meant; Job was often found in these contendings with God. But shall any think to logick it with God? to enter a dispute with God? to argue with or reply upon him, as the Apostle speaks (Rom. 9.20.) O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Arguing and replying are a kind of contending, and this is of two sorts;
- 1Qui offert se disputaturum cum eo. Aqu.
First, With the Word of God, declaring what God would have us do, or what God would have us believe. Thus many contend with God, even as many as submit not to his Word. This is a common quarrel, whether the Word of God or mans will shall stand, whether the Law of God or the lusts of men shall ⟨p. 498⟩carry it, and bear the sway. The Apostle is express in it (Rom. 8.7, 8.) The carnal mind is enmity against God; and if so, then it contendeth with God, for enmity will be contending; and what kind of contending is there meant, appears in the next words, it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Every natural man, till subdued and conquered by grace, is contending with the Word of God; he submits not to what God would have him do, nor to what God would have him believe; he will not form either his faith or his life as God would have him. Infinite are the Contentions of man with God in this notion; but neither is this the contending here aimed at, and I would speak to no more than is directly to the scope of the Text. Therefore