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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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ELIPHAZ now enters his third and last contest with Job; in which some tell us that he behaveth himself like a man who seeks Victory rather then Truth: who though he hath been sufficiently answered, yet will not seem to be overcome; yea that he takes up the same weapons to maintain this third, with which he maintained his two former Encounters; The first in the fourth and fifth Chapters, and the second in the 15th. as if he were resolved to contradict, ⟨p. 2⟩though he could not confute the reasons wherewith Job had made his defence.
ELIPHAZ now enters his third and last contest with Job; in which some tell us that he behaveth himselfe like a man who seekes Victory rather then Truth: who though he hath been sufficiently answered, yet will not seem to be overcome; yea that he takes up the same weapons to maintain this third, with which hee maintain'd his two former Encounters; The first in the fourth and fifth Chapters, and the second in the 15th. as if he were resolved to contradict, ⟨p. 2⟩though he could not confute the reasons wherewith Job had made his defence.
But as such a carriage as this in Disputation is altogether vain in it self, so it is most uncomely in a wise and godly man; who ought not to refuse truth and reason though spoken by an Adversary, but rather modestly to sit down and confess his own error and mistaking: And therefore though Eliphaz in this answer or triplication doth but roll the same stone, and move upon the same hinge in general; still adjudging Job to suffer for his sin, and to be punished as an evil doer; yet he puts all into a new method, and varies the scene or manner of his argumentation, which may be reduced to this form; as if Eliphaz had said: O Job! if thou sufferest all these evils for some cause (as certainly thou dost, for these things could not come by chance, but by the wise disposure and providence of God) then that cause or reason for which thou sufferest, must either be found in God or in thy self: If thou sayest the reason is in God, and that he doth it by his prerogative, thou dost rashly intrude thy self into his secrets, and art over-bold or curious in searching into his hidden counsels; and when thou hast made out thy conjectures, we may as easily deny as thou dost affirm: but if thou hast recourse to, and reflectest upon thy own self for the cause of thy sorrows and sufferings, surely thou canst find out or pitch upon nothing else but thy sinfulness and abounding transgressions, which while thou refusest to acknowledge, thou dost but harden thy heart against God, and growest impatient under the rebukes of his afflicting hand, therefore I admonish thee to repent, &c. This seems to be the sum of that whole discourse which Eliphaz gives in this Chapter, as will further appear in the explication of the parts.