Chap, 42. AxExpoftionupon the Bookof J o B. Vert'. y . be cryed onto the Lord all night. Samuel was vehemently grieved, becaufe of the ill performance of Saul in his expedition againtfi the 4malakites. 'Tis alfo tranflated to fret (Ffal. 37. 2, 9.) Fret not thyfel f ix any wife to de evil ; fretting bath its burning, Mywrath (faith the Lord) is kindled. There is a wrath of God, which is not kindt.ed, as I may fay, it is not blown up, 'tiscovered in the aflaes of his patience and forbearance ; bur here, faith God, Mywrath is kindled. This is fpoken byGodafter the manner of men. God feels no change by wrath or anger, noimprefïion is made on him by any paffbn : Wrath in God, notes only his change of difpenfations to+vards man, not any inhimfeif. When he ass like a man whoa wrath isgreatlykindled, then 'cis Paid, his wrath is kindled ; as when h: 6teth like a man that fheweth much love, it may be laid, hislov: is kindled. Further, when God faith, c.aíy titre!) is kindled, it implieth there is fome great provocation givenhim by man, as in thepre- lent cafe Eliphaz and his twofriends had done. The Lord th rear- ned a [inful Land with 6rimflone, and fait, and burning, like the overthrow of Sodam and Gomorrah ; and, this being executed, ali nations fhall fay,whereforebath the Lorddone thou unte this Land what meaneth the heat of this great anger ? Then men /hall fay, becaufe they have forfaken theCovenant of the LordGod of their Fathers, &c. (Dent.2ç.23,24,25.) The wrath ofGod is never kindled till blown, and that which bloweth it up is mans fin ; nor doth the ordinary fins of man kindle the wrath of God, for then it nun be alwaycs kindled, even againfi the belt of men. D.mubt- lefs, when the Lord faid in the Text toEliphaz, My wrath is kindled againff thee and thy twofriends, there was fomcwhat ex- traordinary in their fin, which kindled it ; and therefore the Lord direoled them an extraordinary way (as to circumfiances ) for the quenching of it, and the making of their peace. Buthere it may be queI ioned, why did the Lord fay his wrath was kindledonly against Eliphaz and his two friends ? had he no- thing to fay againfi Elibu ? he had fpoken as harûily to Job as any of them, yet Elihuwas not at all reproved, much lets was the wrath of God kindled against him. I anfwer, 'Tis true, Elibu fpake very hard wordsof Job ; yet we may fay four things of Eats, which might exempt him from Rrrrr z this S59
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