578 Chap. 4e. An Expofition upon the Book of J o B. Verf. i a. the proud man, and1 abaft him ; 1 look upon the proudman, and bring him low, now let me fee you do fo too. Canif thou with a look only abate their pride, and bringdown the pomp ofman ? Cafeabroad the rage of thy wrath. Hence note, Firii There is wrath in God. God knoweth how to tali forth his wrath as well as to fend Raba ¡NM". forth his love, or /bed it abroad (as the Apofilesword is, Rom. ®treat fuam e- 5. ç; ). in the hearts of his ju(iified ones, by the holy Ghóti,which nergian nun- is given unto them. The wrath of God ( faith the fame Apofile, guaoiegvedi Rom i, i$.) is revealed from heaven''againfl all ungodlinefs and aueroarsa. unrighteoufnefs of men, who hold the truth in unrigbteoufnefs. The wrath of God is,fuch as we can neither, Fird, with(iand, nor, Secondly, avoid; there's, no out-running, no making an efcape fromir, but only by Jefus Chrifi, and therefore the Apodle gives that glory to him alone ( a The" . i, i o. ) Even feftu,whichdeli- vered us from the wrath to come. There is a wrath to come, which God will [carter over all this finful wicked world ; bletled are they that are delivered from it. Yea, not only is there wrath in God, but a fiercenefs of wrath, terrible wrath, Each as will caufe the wicked ( as was raid before) to run into the boles of the rocks, and into thecaves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, andfor the glory of his majef#y, when be arifeth to fbake terribly the earth (Ifa. 2. a9.) Let us mind this wrath and the fiercenefs of it; and let us blefs the Lord, who hath fens Jefus Chriti to deliver us . from this wrath, and from the fiercenefs of it. ' Whenwrath flail be cats abroad upon the wicked world, that it falls not upon the godly, is the fruit of higheti and freed love. And though they ripof the cup, yet that they drinknot the dregsof it is rich mercy (Pfa/. 75.98.) In the hand of the Lord 'there is a cup, and the wine is red, it is full of mixture, and be powreth out the fame (in this powring out (pod-b1y) a godly man may drink fousiewhat of it, efpecially in a time of common calamity ) but thedregs thereof all the wicked of the earth fball wring them out anddrink them. 'It is of the Lords mercy, andbecaufehis compáffi- ens failnot that we are delivered from the fiercenefsof his wrath, and fromdrinking the very dregs of thecup of his difpleafure. Co nfidet further,upon whom this wrath willbe' cxercifed,Caft forth
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