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God's anger
God's anger ; and, Man's comfort two sermons / preached and published by Tho. Adams.
London: printed by Tho. Maxey for Samuel Man, 1652
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Now God is never angry without a cause: he is no froward God, of no tetchy and pettish nature: a cause there must be, or he would never be angry. There can be no cause but sin; we never read that God was angry for any thing else. Some he hath corrected without respect unto sin, as he did Job: but he was never angry with any man, but for the sin of that man. It is the sin of the people that hath thus grieved God, and it is the anger of God that hath ⟨p. 5⟩thus grieved the people. Sin must be supposed to run along with his anger throughout the text, as the ecliptic line does through the Zodiac.
Now God is never angry without a cause: he is no froward God, of no techy and pettish nature: a cause there must be, or he would neverbe angry. There can be no cause but sin; we never read that God was angry for any thing else. Some he hath corrected without respect unto sin, as he did Job: but he was never angry with any man, but for the sin of that man. It is the sin of the people that hath thus grieved God, and it is the anger of God that hath ⟨p. 5⟩thus grieved the people. Sin must be supposed to run along with his anger throughout the text, as the eclyptick line does thorow the Zodiake.
1. If it were not for sin, God would not be angry.
2. If it were not for the continuance of sin, he would not be so long angry.