An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…

Thus they stumbled at the supposed uneven dispensations of their idol gods. And we find great offence taken, and an horrible blasphemy belched out against the true God, upon the same occasion, and almost in the same terms (Mal. 2.17.) Ye have wearied the Lord with your words, yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them, or where is the God of judgement? Though they fell not directly into the former blasphemy, to conclude there was no God, because wicked men prospered; yet they fell into a blasphemous opinion, that God delighted in, and loved wicked men, because they prospered; Wherein have we wearied the Lord? Yes, ye have. Not that the Lord is at all moved or troubled in himself with the contumelious speeches of men, but thus, if any thing would tire, and weary him, this may, to hear himself arraigned and judged by the world, as a lover of evil men, because he doth not presently smite them with the visible marks of his displeasure, that because the earth is given into the hands of the wicked, therefore the Lord must needs be a friend to the wicked.

Thus they stumbled at the supposed uneven dispensations of their idol gods. And we finde great offence taken, and an horrible blasphemy belched out against the true God, upon the same occasion, and almost in the same terms (Mal. 2.17.) Ye have wearied the Lord with your words, yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them, or where is the God of judgement? Though they fell not directly into the former blasphemy, to conclude there was no God, because wicked men prospered; yet they fell into a blasphemous opinion, that God delighted in, and loved wicked men, because they prospered; Wherein have we wearied the Lord? Yes, ye have. Not that the Lord is at all moved or troubled in himself with the contumelious speeches of men, but thus, if any thing would tire, and weary him, this may, to hear himself arraigned and judged by the world, as a lover of evil men, because he doth not presently smite them with the visible marks of his displeasure, that because the earth is given into the hands of the wicked, therefore the Lord must needs be a friend to the wicked.