Chap. 41. ',In Expotitian upon the Book of Jo it. Verf. 7. $6t . put fire therein from off the altar, and put en incenfe, and go quicklyunto the congregation, and make an atonement for them, for there is wrath gone out from the Lord, the plague is begun. Now as in this latter part of the chapter, c.. íofes (hews that wrath was goneout againfi that people from the Lord; fo in the former part of it he lL'e vs, that fin, and that a great fin,was gone out fromthat peopleagainfi the Lord. Thirdly, Note ; The Lord fomecimes declaretb wrath,even againfi thofe whom be loveth. Wrathmay, fall upon good men ; fuch were thefe friends of fob.Al1 the Elea, whiled they remain unconverted or uncalled, . are called Children of wrath (Ephef. 2.3.) Though they are in the everlafling love of God, yet they arechildren of wrath, as to their prefent condition, whilfi in a Bate of nature and unreconci- led to God. Now, as the children of God, are children of wrath, before their converficn;fo,whenanygreat°fin is committed after converlon, they are in Tome fenfe under wrath ; and the Lord declared) wrath againil them, till the breach be healed, and their peace fued out. It is dangerous;continuing for a moment in any fin unrepenred of,or we not going untoGod by Jefus Chrifi for pardon. When once the wrath of God is kindled, how far it may burn, who knoweth ? There is no fafety under guilt ; Therefore kifs ehe fon left bebe angry, and ye perifh from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little : bleffed are they that put their truft in him (Pfal. a. 12.) My wrath iskindled againfi thee, and thy twofriends. Why ? Becaufe ye have not fpoken that which it right of me. Hence note, Fourthly ; when the Lord is angry he will (hew caufe of his anger. God is not angry (as men often are) without caufe.When fo- nahwas angry, the Lord Paid unto him, Doff' thouwellte beangry e Yea, faith he, that I do, I have reafon enough (thought he) to be angry, though there was no crue reafon at all for it. But when the Lord is angry, he always hath reafon enough, and he fome- tirnes giveth his reafon. That the Lord doth us good, is from grace free a
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