A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

5. The Act of his Power. 'Tis a sign of a noble and generous mind to pass over offences and injuries. Sick and indigent persons are the most peevish and impatient, and least able to concoct an injury. And when we kindle into a flame upon the least sparks of a wrong, the Apostle tells us, we are overcome of evil, Rom. 12.21. Be not overcome of evil: We become captives to our angry passions; speedy revenge in us being an act of weakness, the contrary must be an act of power over our selves. God's not executing the fierceness of his Anger is laid upon his being a God, and not man, Hos. 11.9. God's Infinite Power gives a rise to pardon, Micah 7.18. Who is a God like to thee, that pardons iniquity? Junius and Tremellius render it, Who is a strong God? and the Hebrew [Greek or Hebrew] will bear it. Let the power of my Lord be great, saith Moses, Numb. 14.17. The word Jigdal is written with a great Jod, to show, say the Jews, that it is more than an ordinary power to command ones self when injured. Therefore when God proclaims his pardoning Name, he ushers it in with names of power; The Lord, the Lord God, Exod. 34.6. 'Tis a greater work to forgive, than to prevent the commission of sin; as it is a greater work to raise a dead man, than to cure a sick man; one is a work of Art, the other belongs only to Omnipotency.

5. The Act of his Power. 'Tis a sign of a noble and generous mind to pass over offences and injuries. Sick and indigent persons are the most peevish and impatient, and least able to concoct an injury. And when we kindle into a flame upon the least sparks of a wrong, the Apostle tells us, we are overcome of evil, Rom. 12.21. Be not overcome of evil: We become captives to our angry passions; speedy revenge in us being an act of weakness, the contrary must be an act of power over our selves. God's not executing the fierceness of his Anger is laid upon his being a God, and not man,