A35535:202
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
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.
Whence note; We should see good reason for our anger before we are angry, whether in our own cause, or in the cause of God.
There is nothing can excuse anger but the cause of it. Reason is a good plea for passion; And he that hath a true reason for his anger, will probably manage his anger with reason, yea, and mingle it with grace; And so his proves not only a rational, but a gracious anger.
Fourthly note; Provoked patience breaks out into greater passion.
In the former Verse, we find Job waiting, he waited long and patiently; but being disappointed of what he waited for, his wrath broke out; His anger was kindled; As when God waits long and is disappointed, his anger is increased in the manifestation of it (Rom. 2.4, 5. ver:) Despisest thou the riches of his goodness ⟨p. 41⟩and forbearance and long-suffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leads thee to repentance? but after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up wrath, &c. As if he had said, the more patience God spends upon thee, the more wrath is treasured up r thee, and that wrath will break out the more fiercely and violently to consume thee, the longer it hath been treasured up. Now I say, as the wrath of God is the more declared against man, by how much his patience is the more abused; So the abused patience of man will turn to greater anger, and he groweth the more passionate by how much he hath been the more and the oftener deceived. Thus Elihu is still described acting angerly, yet in the very next verse we shall find him speaking soberly, plainly and to purpose.