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or because Amaleks hand is lifted up against Gods Throne, that is the Church, (so called in Jer. 4.21. and Crown of Glory, Isa. 62.3.) therefore God will have perpetual wars with Amalek. God could as soon be reconciled to Amalek, as a gracious Christian can be reconciled to his sins. Others sense the words thus, that Moses had a solemn Oath (as it were laying his hand upon Gods Throne) for asseveration and assurance, that he and the people will have an irreconcilable war with the posterity of Amalek. And so every gracious soul is resolved to make an irreconcilable war with sin. But now where there is only common Grace, there a man deals by his sins as David did by his son Absalom, banish him his Court for a time, and afterwards receive him into full favour, and court him as much or more than before. An unsound heart may fall out with his sin, and be very angry with its sin, for the consequence of it, for the shame it brings upon his person, for the blot it leaves upon his name, and for the stinging guilt and convulsion fits which it causeth in his Conscience, and yet this very person be in a very close and strict league with sin, and his heart inwardly and strongly adhering unto sin. But a gracious heart will be still a restraining of sin, a curbing of sin, a crossing of sin, a making head against sin, and a withstanding it in all its workings. Anger may be reconciled, but hatred cannot.

or because Amaleks hand is lifted up against Gods Throne, that is the Church, (so called in Jer. 4.21. and Crown of Glory, Isa. 62.3.) therefore God will have perpetual wars with Amalek. God could as soon be reconciled to Amalek, as a gracious Christian can be reconciled to his sins. Others sense the words thus, that Moses had a solemn Oath (as it were laying his hand upon Gods Throne) for asseveration and assurance, that he and the people will have an irreconcilable war with the posterity of Amalek. And so every gracious soul is resolved to make an irreconcileable war with sin. But now where there is only common Grace, there a man deals by his sins as David did by his son Absolom, banish him his Court for a time, and afterwards receive him into full favour, and court him as much or more than before. An unsound heart may fall out with his sin, and be very angry with its sin, for the consequence of it, for the shame it brings upon his person, for the blot it leaves upon his name, and for the stinging guilt and convulsion fits which it causeth in his Conscience, and yet this very person be in a very close and strict league with sin, and his heart inwardly and strongly adhering unto sin. But a gracious heart will be still a restraining of sin, a curbing of sin, a crossing of sin, a making head against sin, and a withstanding it in all its workings. Anger may be reconciled, but hatred cannot.