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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 5-6
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Thirdly, As the Lord suffers many wicked men to live, that they may be brought out of their sins, so he suffers others to live that they may fill up the measure of their sins. Why did the Lord preserve the Amorites? was it because he loved or liked them? no, but because they were not then ripe for Judgment, (Gen. 15.16.) The Iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. Some wicked men are to fill up their days, that they may fill up the measure of their Fathers sins, by their own, as Christ threatened the Scribes and Pharisees, (Math. 23.32.) Such a grant of life, though for a thousand years, is worse than a thousand Deaths.
Thirdly, As the Lord suffers many wicked men to live, that they may be brought out of their sins, so he suffers others to live that they may fill up the measure of their sins. Why did the Lord preserve the Amorites? was it because he loved or liked them? no, but because they were not then ripe for Judgment, (Gen. 15.16.) The Iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. Some wicked men are to fill up their dayes, that they may fill up the measure of their Fathers sins, by their own, as Christ threatned the Scribes and Pharisees, (Math. 23.32.) Such a grant of life, though for a thousand years, is worse than a thousand Deaths.
Fourthly, we may answer, The wicked are not so much preserved from, as reserved unto further wrath, (2 Pet. 2.9.) The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of Judgment, to be punished. God doth not presently punish all the wicked, nor take away their lives; there is a day of Judgment coming, and till that day come, their lives are preserved, as persons reserved unto Judgment.