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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 35 › Verses 15-16
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Secondly, There is an anger for ever, an abiding wrath, a fire of anger which never goeth out, nor can be put out, which is kindled ⟨p. 126⟩in the breast of God against ungodly men, and against them only as living and dying without repentance, in their ungodliness. Job a godly man, was visited in the former, not in this latter anger.
Yet for the fuller answer to this query, as it concerns Jobs case, I conceive Elihu speaks with the highest and hardest towards him. For though it be a truth, that the Lord discovers, as was showed before, a fatherly anger towards his children when he chasteneth them for their sin, yet he chasteneth them more, or rather, in love than in anger; As whom he loves, he rebukes and chastens, (Rev. 3.19.) so he chastens and rebukes them in love. And as for Job, whom God dearly loved, it is clear from the first and second Chapters of this Book, that God afflicted him not for any special sin, or way of sinning, but for his trial, and to set him up as a great pattern of patience to all succeeding generations. Or we may say that God afflicted Job, not because of any provocation which he had given him, but at Satan's instance and provocation, (Chap. 2.3.) All that can be said for Elihu's help in saying that God visited him in anger, is only this, That though Job had not provoked the Lord to visit him in anger when he began to visit him, yet some impatient and over-bold speeches of his, or that liberty of speech which he took in expostulating and almost contesting with God about his afflictions, might cause him to visit him in such anger as hath been set forth in answer to the query. And now because it is not so, because the Lord misseth those acts of grace, trust and patience, which thy case calleth thee to the exercise of, He hath visited in his anger; and what followeth?
Yet for the fuller answer to this query, as it concerns Jobs case, I conceive Elihu speaks with the highest and hardest towards him. For though it be a truth, th•t the Lord discovers, as was shewed before, a fatherly anger towards his children when he chasteneth them for their sin, yet he chasteneth them more, or rather, in love than in anger; As whom he loves, he rebukes and chastens, (