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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 38 › Verse 22-23
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As he retaineth not his anger for ever, so he restraineth it long, because he delighteth in mercy (Mic. 7.18.) As mercy moves the Lord speedily to receive repenting sinners into favour, so it prevails with him to be very slow in sending judgements upon those that are impenitent. The Lord reserved or kept back the waters of the flood a hundred and twenty years from drowning the Old World; though, as they provoked and even dared him to do it every day by their presumptuous sinnings against his warnings, so he was able to do it any hour or moment of the day.
As he retaineth not his anger for ever, so he restraineth it long, because he delighteth in mercy (Mic. 7.18.) As mercy moves the Lord speedily to receive repenting sinners into fav•ur, so it prevails with him to be very slow in sending judgements upon those that are impenitent. The Lord reserved or kept back the waters of the flood a hundred and twenty years from drowning the Old World; though, as they provoked and even dared him to do it every day by their presumptuous sinnings against his warnings, so he was able to do it any hour or moment of the day.
Thirdly Note, Trouble hath its time or season.
There is a time for every purpose under the Sun (Eccl. 3.1.) Men have times for their purposes, and so hath God (much more) for his; he hath his times for quietness and times for trouble. And as sin is the cause and source of all trouble, so when sin is ripe, trouble is ready. When men have filled up the measure of their sin, then God pouts down trouble upon them, or makes it a time of trouble, that they may taste and see, and be convinced how evil and how bitter a thing it is to sin against the Lord. The Amorites were full of iniquity, when God spake to Abraham (