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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty-seven lectures, delivered at Magnus near London Bridge. By Joseph Caryl, preacher of the Word, and pastor of the congregation there.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty-seven lectures, delivered at Magnus near London Bridge. By Joseph Caryl, preacher of the Word, and pastour of the congregation there.
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1655
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Yet further, that which before, he called the way of God, here he calls the commandment of his lips; lips are the instruments of speech. God is a spirit, and hath no corporeal parts: the Scripture speaks thus of God after the manner of men; because men speak with their lips (their lips being a principal instrument of speech) therefore the commandment which God hath made known, and spoken (in a way peculiar to himself) is called the commandment of his lips. 1Mr Broughton translates strictly to the letter; His lips laws I cast not off. And when Job calleth the commandments of God, the commandments of his lips, it hath a great force in it, to oblige man to reverence, and obey them. They are not commandments which he hath published by others only, he hath also published them himself. They are the commandments of his lips, that is, those commandments which as he made and others speak in his name, so he hath spoken them too.2 He is both the Author and the publisher of them. (Exod. 20.1.) And God spake all these words and said. David (Psal. 66.13, 14.) puts that emphatically upon his holy vows, to show how he was engaged to perform them; I will go into thy house with burnt offerings, and I will pay thee my vows that my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken when I was in trouble: As if he had said, my vows are not only such as I have conceived in my heart, and resolved in my own thoughts, but I have spoken them out and declared them openly, therefore it lies upon me not only in conscience, but in honour to pay and perform them. If we must do what our lips have uttered, much more wust we do what God hath uttered with his lips. Lip-labour will not answer those commandments which are the labour of Gods lips. Therefore saith Job, I have not turned back from the commandment of his lips.
Yet further, that which before, he called the way of God, here he calls the commandement of his lips; lips are the instruments of speech. God is a spirit, and hath no corporeall parts: the Scripture speakes thus of God after the manner of men; because men speake with their lips (their lips being a principall instrument of speech) therefore the commandement which God hath made knowne, and spoken (in a way peculiar to himselfe) is called the commandement of his lips.