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

Secondly, God is angry with persons for sinning, (there is a great difference between these two; anger with sinful persons, and anger with persons for their sin, or for sinning) and thus he is angry with his own people, even with the godly when they sin, though not for every sin.

Further, We may distinguish of anger thus; There is anger mixed with a desire of taking revenge upon those that we are angry with, a revengeful anger: thus the Lord is angry only with the wicked. Of this anger Moses speaks, having described a presumptuous sinner, who believes not only without a word, but against the word, who when he heareth the word of the curse, blesseth ⟨p. 125⟩himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness unto thirst; then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, &c. (Deut. 29.19, 20.) Read more of this revengeful anger of the Lord, (Deut. 32.22, 41, 42.) Secondly, there is anger with a desire to reform, and reclaim those that we are angry with: Thus a loving and indulgent father is angry with his child, when he hath committed a fault; he is angry, not with an anger of desire to revenge, but with an anger of desire to reform. And thus the Lord is angry with his own people, with his choicest servants, and dearest children, when they forget their duty and play the wantons.

Further, We may distinguish of anger thus; There is anger mixed with a desire of taking revenge upon those that we are ang•y with, a revengeful anger: thus the Lord is angry only with the wicked. Of this anger Moses speaks, having described a presumptuous sinner, who believes not only without a word, but against the word, who when he heareth the word of the curse, blesseth ⟨p. 125⟩