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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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Thirdly, God takes pleasure to see a sincere and upright person justify himself, or plead his own justice against all the false accusations and suspicions of men. The Lord likes it well to hear a man who is falsely accused, to stand up and maintain his own innocency, yea it is our duty, and we are bound in conscience to maintain our own innocency. So David in the seventh Psalm and in the eighteenth Psalm justified himself against Saul. And thus Job all along in this Book justified himself against the opinion of his friends; in this sense God takes pleasure, when we are so righteous in all our dealings, and perfect in all our ways, that we dare encounter whosoever speaks the contrary, and can wash off all the aspersions which either misguided and mistaken friends, or professed Enemies cast upon us. You have now had those three affirmative Propositions for the understanding of the Text. Take three more in the Negative.
Thirdly, God takes pleasure to see a sincere and upright person justifie himselfe, or plead his owne justice against all the false accusations and suspitions of men. The Lord likes it well to hear a man who is falsly accused, to stand up and maintaine his own innocency, yea it is our duty, and we are bound in conscience to maintain our own innocency. So David in the seventh Psalm and in the eighteenth Psalm justified himselfe against Saul. And thus Job all along in this Book justified himselfe against the opinion of his friends; in this sense God takes pleasure, when we are so righteous in all our dealings, and perfect in all our wayes, that we dare encounter whosoever speaks the contrary, and can wash off all the aspersions which either misguided and mistaken friends, or professed Enemies cast upon us. You have now had those three affirmative Propositions for the understanding of the Text. Take three more in the Negative.
First, God hath no pleasure to see us justify our selves before him, or to plead our own righteousness with him, yea he is extremely displeased at it. This some conceive the chief thing which Eliphaz aimed at. Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou doest justify thy self? No, thou dost highly provoke him in doing so, to plead with or to justify our selves before God that we are righteous, is worse then all our unrighteousness, for this overthrows the whole design of the Gospel, which is (