A81199:935
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.
And it is delivered by the purenes of thine hands.
Eliphaz spake before in the third person, here in the second; 'tis probable he did so purposely to make Job understand that he ⟨p. 290⟩meant him. It is delivered &c. That is, the Island is delivered, according to our translation; how is it delivered? by the pureness of thine hands. The word notes the most exact purity and cleanness, like that of gold when it is refined in the fire, or of garments that are washed with Soap or Nitre;1 by this pureness it or the Island shall be delivered: and by the pureness of his hands, he means the pureness of his actions or administrations. The hand is the instrument of action, and pure or clean hands in Scripture are put for the purity or cleanness of our actions or conversation. While our doings are holy, our works righteous, just, and good, it may be said our hands are pure. And we may refer this especially to prayer; Thou shalt deliver the Island of the Innocent, and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands; That is, thou praying in the purity of thy hands, or with pure hands, shalt deliver the Island of the innocent, or (according to that other reading) those that are not innocent. And then, pureness of hands, or pure hands, are put as a sign for the thing signified, the gesture, for that which is done in that gesture. The lifting up of hands is a gesture in prayer, and the lifting up of pure hands, notes the purity of prayer. (1 Tim. 2.8.) I will that men pray every where, lifting up holy or pure hands. Now because 'tis usual in prayer to lift up the hands; and in prayer no hands but morally pure or holy hands should be lifted up (and so theirs are in Scripture sense whose lives are holy) therefore we may well conceive, that when he saith, it shall be delivered by the pureness of thy hands, his meaning is this, it shall be delivered by holy prayer, or when thou prayest holily, it shall be delivered. Thus Eliphaz doth not only promise Job, that himself in person should be lifted up and saved when others are cast down, but that he should be a means of saving and delivering others, and those not some few or all his own family, but that the whole Nation or Island in General should escape and fare the better for him. It shall be delivered by the pureness of thy hands. Learn hence, this Great and famous Truth; That, a Godly Person is a Common good.