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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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It is some favour, when we have the respite to cry, How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry with us? He is not throughly angry with us, when he suffers us to breath forth this expostulation. There is some hope of remedy, when we once complain of our sickness. It is not change of climate, but change of diet, that recovers us: when we grow to forbear the surfeits of sin, there is a fair possibility of comfort. Yet God may be long angry, and long continue sensible testimonies of his anger. hForty years long was I grieved with this Generation. He had smitten Israel with divers punishments, and threatened them with with more grievous calamities; that ievery man should eat the flesh of his own arm; Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they both against Judah: And yet he had not done with them, his anger was not turned away, but his hand was stretched out still. Davids pestilence of three days, was a storm soon blown over, though it were bitter for the time: Gods displeasure hath dwelt longer upon us.
It is some favour, when we have the respite to cry, How long, Lord, wilt thou be angry with us? He is not throughly angry with us, when he suffers us to breath forth this expostulation. There is some hope of remedy, when we once complain of our sicknesse. It is not change of climate, but change of dyet, that recovers us: when we grow to forbear the surfets of sin, there is a fair possibility of comfort. Yet God may be long angry, and long continue sensible testimonies of his anger. hForty years long was I grieved with this Generation. He had smitten Israel with divers punishments, and threatned them with with more grievous calamities; that ievery man should eat the flesh of his own arme; Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they both against Judah: And yet he had not done with them, his anger was not turned away, but his hand was stretched out still. Davids pestilence of three dayes, was a storm soone blown over, though it were bitter for the time: Gods displeasure hath dwelt longer upon us.
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