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Sermons, taken in short hand by T. Palmer
Sermons taken in short hand by T Palmer Author:John Martin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON III. Job ix. 2. / know it is so of a truth, but how should man be just with God ? 4 4 -- THE antiquity of this book has rarely been questi... more »oned.—It is generally allowed to be one of the most ancient books of Sacred Scripture. It is the general opinion of the learned and judicious, that it was written as early, if not more early than the time of Moses; but one wonderful man in this country (Bishop Warburton I mean) was of opinion that this book bears a much later date; that it was not written till the time of Ezra. Much as I admire that great man, this is one instance, among others, in which I am obliged to depart from him; for I still continue to think that the Book of Job is of more ancient date. I am sure we have no ground, in the very serious text I have taken, to call in question the antiquity of this book; for in all ages since the fall, it certainly has been a fact that those persons who admit that God is, and is to be considered the Judge of Men, in all ages it hath been (with them) more or less a question of the highest importance how man should be just with, or before, God. Job, in the present chapter is answering Bildad the Shuite. He had been very severe, and had said the most grating things to this remarkable sufferer: but Job overlooks, in a great measure, his invective, and only goes back to some questions he had asked him in the beginning of what we call the the 8th chapter. Bildad had said—" Doth God pervert judgment ? or doth the Almighty pervert justice? If thy children have sinned against him, and he hath cast them away for their transgression: if thou wouldst seek unto God betimes, and make supplication to the Almighty; if thou art pure and upright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness pros...« less