An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Secondly, All those Scriptures before alleged, importing that sin grieves God, vexes him, and is very burdensome to him; all those are spoken either of God-man, Jesus Christ, who was made like unto us in all things, except sin, and is spoken of in the Histories and Prophesies of the Old Testament,¹ before he took flesh, as having those (in him) sinless passions of anger, and sorrow, and grief, which were found in him after he appeared in the flesh: Or if expounded of God, strictly considered, then what is in those Scriptures spoken of God, must be understood after the manner of men, yet as becomes God, who is without all passions and repentings: Or they are to be understood, not as importing Affections in God, but Effects upon men. When men sin, God doth such things as angry men use to do, such things as men do that are grieved with what others have done, and repent of what themselves have done. If grief, anger, repentance, were properly wrought in God, when we sin, our sins must needs be some, yea much annoyance to him. But while man sees and feels such Effects as these passions produce, the Lord is infinitely exalted above the least feeling of these passions, he remains ever the same: That's it which Elihu signifieth, and holds out to Job; we may trouble one another, and trouble our selves by sin, but we cannot at all trouble God. If thou sinnest, what dost thou against him, what unto him? I shall conclude, and gather up the sense of this Context in these four brief Deductions. Take two of them Negatively, and two Affirmatively.

Secondly, All those Scriptures before alledged, importing that sin grieves God, vexes him, and is very burthensome to him; all those are spoken either of God-man, Jesus Christ, who was made like unto us in all things, except sin, and is spoken of in the Historyes and Prophesies of the Old Testament,¹ before he took flesh, as having those (in him) sinlesse passions of anger, and sorrow, and grief, which were found in him after he appeared in the flesh: Or if expounded of God, strictly considered, then what is in those Scriptures spoken of God, must be understo•d after the manner of men, yet as becomes God, who is without all passions and repentings: Or they are to be understood, not as importing Affections in God, but Effects upon men. When men sin, God doth such things as angry men use to do, such things as men do that are gieved with what others have done, and repent of what themselves have done. If grief, anger, repentance, were properly wrought in God, when we sin, our sins must needs be some, yea much annoyance to him. But while man sees and feels such Effects as these passions produce, the Lord is infinitely exalted above the least feeling of these passions, he remains ever the same: That's it which Elihu signifieth, and holds out to Job; we may trouble one another, and trouble our selves by sin, but we cannot at all trouble God. If thou sinnest, what dost thou against him, what unto him? I shall conclude, and gather up the sence of this Context in these four brief Deductions. Take two of them Negatively, and two Affirmatively.