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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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From whose mouth? from the mouth of God; how can that be? Indeed Moses went up into the Mount, and was with God forty days, and there received the Law from his mouth; but could Job Receive the Law from his mouth as Moses did? I answer; If God had called him to it, as he did Moses he might. But ⟨p. 223⟩that's not the purpose of Eliphaz. Neither are we (I conceive) to understand him of such a Receiving from the mouth of God, as the old Prophets had who received the mind of God by Immediate Inspiration, & dictates from God himself: for though they were not called up solemnly into a Mount (as Moses) to receive the Law, yet the Spirit was sent to make known the mind of God to them. And in that sense the Prophet Jeremiah is said to warn King Zedekiah from the mouth of the Lord (2 Chron. 36.12.) And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the Prophet speaking from the mouth of the Lord; that is, he received a word from God by an Extraordinary Revelation to carry unto the King, who yet humbled not himself. And so (Isaiah 30.2.) the Lord complains of his people that walked to go down to Egypt to strengthen themselves with the strength of Pharaoh &c. and yet had not asked at his mouth, that is, had not asked direction in the thing according to the ways of Revelation then in use, by enquiring of the Prophets, or of the high Priest; And the Lord tells the Prophet Jeremiah (Ch. 15.19.1) that he should be as his mouth if he would take forth the precious from the vile, as if he had said, if thou art faithful in my work, I will reveal my self to thee, & thou shalt speak even as if I my self spoke, thou shalt be as my mouth. Now, I conceive, Eliphaz doth not go thus high when he bids Job Receive the Law from the mouth of God, as if he were to expect Immediate direction and advice from him. For then, we may be said to receive a rule or a law from the mouth of God, when we receive that which God hath manifested at any time as a rule and law for us with the rest of his people to walk by: they who receive that law once delivered from the mouth of God, may be said to receive the law from his mouth, though they are not the Immediate receivers of it, yea, though it were published some thousands of years before they were borne.