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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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First, Some interpret it in favour of Job, as if he only summoned his friends to the tribunal of God, being confident of a good issue there.
First, Some interpret it in favour of Job, as if he onely summoned his friends to the tribunall of God, being confident of a good issue there.
Secondly, Others interpret it as a presumptuous suggestion against God himself, and the strictness of his proceedings with him, which they endeavour to prove upon (as they conceive) these four grounds of his complaint.
Secondly, Others enterpret it as a presumptuous suggestion against God himselfe, and the strictnesse of his proceedings with him, which they endeavour to prove upon (as they conceive) these foure grounds of his complaint.
First, Because he complained that his afflictions were beyond all his complaints; and that what he had said was but little to what he felt, or to the greatness of his sorrow (ver. 1, 2.) Eve• •o day is my complaint bitter, my stroke is heavier then my groaning. These words are conceived, to carry in them, at least, an intimation that Job thought himself too hardly dealt with, or that there was no just cause why he should be prosecuted and proceeded against with so much severity by the continued and renewed strokes of God upon him. And indeed it cannot be denied, That he (whosoever he is) is justly judged as over-bold with God, who judgeth any of the dealings of God with himself or with any other man over-severe. But we shall find, that though Job complained often that his sorrows (as to him) were exceeding great, yet he never complained, that (as to God) they were unjust.