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Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God
Several discourses upon the existence and attributes of God by that late eminent minister in Christ, Mr. Stephen Charnocke ...
London: printed for D. Newman, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Nahum begins his prophecy majestically, with a description of the wrath and fury of God. ver. 2. God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth, the Lord revengeth, and is furious, the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and reserveth wrath for his Enemies: And therefore the whole of it is called ver. 1. The burden of Nineveh, as those prophesies are, which are composed of threatenings of judgments, which lie as a mighty weight upon the heads, and backs of sinners.
Nahum begins his prophesie majestically, with a description of the wrath and fury of God. ver. 2. God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth, the Lord revengeth, and is furious, the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and reserveth wrath for his Enemies: And therefore the whole of it is called ver. 1. The burden of Niniveh, as those prophesies are, which are composed of threatnings of judgments, which lie as a mighty weight upon the heads, and backs of sinners.
God is Jealous,] jealous of his Glory and Worship, and jealous for his people and their security. He cannot long bear the oppressions of his people, and the boasts of his Enemies. He is jealous for himself, and is jealous for you of Judah, who retain his Worship. He is not forgetful of those that remember him, nor of the danger of those that are desirous to maintain his honour in the World. In this first expression, the Prophet uses the Covenant Name, God, the Covenant runs, I am your God, or The Lord your God, mostly God without Lord, never Lord without God: And therefore his jealousy here is meant of the care of his people, and the relation that his actions against his Enemies have to his Servants. He is a lover of his own, and a revenger on his Enemies.
The Lord Revengeth and is Furious.] He now describes God by a name of sovereignty and Power, when he describes him in his Wrath, and Fury, and is Furious. Heb. [Greek or Hebrew] Lord of hot Anger. God will vindicate his own Glory, and have his right on his Enemies in a way of punishment, if they will not give it him in a way of Obedience.