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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of twenty three lectures delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl.
London: printed by Matthew Simmons, 1650
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AN EXPOSITION Upon the Fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth Chapte… › Chapter 16 › Verse 5
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First, For the wrath of that man, who is our enemy; we must give place to his wrath, not by approving him or his wrath, but by not answering him with wrath. If when another storms we are calm, if when he rages, we show all gentleness, and meekness both of speech and spirit, then we give place to his wrath; that is, We make it room to pass away and evaporate: Solomons Proverb is the sum of this Exposition (Pro. 15.1.) A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.
First, For the wrath of that man, who is our enemy; we must give place to his wrath, not by approving him or his wrath, but by not answering him with wrath. If when another storms we are calme, if when he rages, we shew all gentlenesse, and meeknesse both of speech and spirit, then we give place to his wrath; that is, We make it roome to passe away and evaporate: Solomons Proverb is the summe of this Exposition (Pro. 15.1.) A soft answer turneth away wrath, but greivous words stirr up anger.
Secondly, When Paul adviseth us not to avenge our selves, but rather to give place to wrath; we may understand it of the wrath of God; and the very next words, which the Apostle allegeth from (Deut. 32.35.) carry the sense clearly ⟨p. 236⟩this way, For it is written, vengeance is mine, I will repay, faith the Lord: As if the Apostle had said, if you take upon you to avenge your selves, you take Gods work out of his hand; it belongs to God as much to take revenge, as it doth to give reward. And therefore as a man who having done good, is over careful and anxious how to get his reward, takes rewarding work out of Gods hand, and shall have no more reward then he can get himself; as Christ tells the Pharisees in that case (