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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of the book of Job being the substance of thirty-five lectures / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1664
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-fifth, Th… › Chapter 36 › Verses 18-20
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As the goodness of God is his love acted, or as the good things which God doth for us are love-actions, so the evils that are upon us are wrath-actions. I do not say that every evil which we endure in this world is the acting of wrath upon us, but I say, there is wrath in the actings of evil upon us. Moses said to Aaron, (Numb. 16.46.) Go quickly, take a Censer (hast, hast) and make an atonement, there is wrath gone out. How did he know wrath was gone out? He tells us in the next words, the plague is ⟨p. 298⟩begun: He saw wrath in that dispensation of God; the plague begun argued that God was angry. Because there is wrath, beware.
Hence note, Thirdly; We should by all means take heed and beware of the wrath of God.
Hence note, Thirdly; We should by all meanes take heed and beware of the wrath of God.
The wrath of man is a small matter to the wrath of God, yet we are very careful to beware of the wrath of man, especially of great men. The wrath of the Kings and Princes of the world, is like the •oaring of the Lion, saith Solomon, and we are ready to tremble at that; but O how should we tremble at, and beware of the wrath of God! Who knoweth the power of thine anger? (Psal. 90.11.) We may take some scantling, some measure of the wrath of man, and know how far it can go, and what it can do; but we can take no measure of the wrath of God, for it is immeasurable, and therefore we should avoid every thing that procures his wrath. That's the meaning of this caveat; do nothing that blows up or incenses the wrath of God. But what is it that blows up wrath? It is sin, every sin hath that in it which may blow up wrath. The Apostle saith, The wrath of God is revealed from heaven, against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, not only against this or that ungodliness, no only against this or that degree of ungodliness, ('tis neither against ungodliness of some special kind, nor of some special degree) but against all ungodliness, therefore all ungodliness and all unrighteousness is to be avoided.