" Head 11. ~ Staft (.f 1Vratb. ' are oo paffions io God, properly Jpeaki~g: they are in· . confillent with his abfolute unchangablenefs, and indepen– .:,_dency: and therefore Paul and Barnaba! (to remove the. . 111iO:ake of ·the Lycaphian!, who thought t4ey were -gods) · , tell ·them, ;:they wei·e men of like paf!iom with 'tbemfelver, .Ads xiv~ 2 5.· Wrath then is attributed to God,. not if\ , refpetl: of the affection of lwrath, but the effeCts thereof; Wrath is a:fire in the b<)wels of man, tormenting the maa ~ himfelf; hut there is no perturbation in God~ His wrat!1 does not in the leaJ1 mar that infinite repofe and happ.inefs, .. which1he bath in .himfelf. It is a moll: pure undifiurbed atl of his wilJ, producing dreadful effeCts agaiall: the finner. ft is little we know of an infinite God; but condefcendin.g to .()Ur .weakne.fs, he is P'~eafed to fpe~k of h'imfelf to.us, after · the manner. of men. Let us therefore notice man's wrath, : but remove e,vhy thing in our confideration of the .wrath · of God, ·that arg_u-es impcrfetlion ;. and fo we may attain to >fome ·view of it, however fcanty. , · By this means we ·aJe .. led to take up the wr.ath of .God ;tgainfl:-the natural man i.- . thefe ·three. . · Firfi,' There .is wrath in .the heart of God againfr hirn . · The Lord .~pprov~s him not, .but is diCpleafed '\Vith !:.in~ . , .Every natur.al man ·lies under the difp!eafure of God ; and : that is heavier ~'han mountains of brafs. Altho' he be , p!eafed with 'hirufelf, and ,others b~ pleafed with him wo; '" yet God looks down on him, as difpleafed. 1jl, His -per– . {on is under God's difpleafnre-; 'ThoU; hatefi all 'i.vor~er~ of ,_ iniquity, IJfal. v. 5. Agod ly man's fin is difpleafing to God,– •· yet his perf(.')t') is ll:ill accepted in the beloved, Eph . i. 6. But Cod is 4'!gry .<With tbe "'.vicked e·very day, PfaJ. vii. 1 1 . There is a fire of wrath burm continually againfi: -him, ·itt ' ~'the heaM of God. They are. dogs .aod fwine, mofl: abonii~ ,pable creatures .in th<: figh,t of God. Tho' theiT natural fl:ate. be .gilded over with a fhiniog profeflion, yet they are .abhor red of God : th~y are to .him a,s fmok;)n hi! noJ~, ·Ifa. Jxv. '5. and lukewarm w :.o ter, to be[pewed out ofhit . •. mouth, ,Rev. iii . 16. whited ;ep~lchrr:,r, Matth. xxiii. 27 • ..a generation of viper!, Matth. xii. 3 4· 1 and a) people of .- hi! r-JJrath, Ifa. x. 6. 2dly, He is difpleafed with -all they do : it is. impoilible for them Hl pleafe him, beiflg ur.b;!lie– •) vets, ·. Il~b .. xi ..6.' He .h,ates their, perfons'.; ,and' fo hat!• no · ·K. p!eafure
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