2T6 Chap. t9, n xpoition upon the Z'ock.of Jo a. Verf.II of anger in God. As the wrathof God drawes out punifnnaent, fo- fin is the oçcalion which drawes out the wrath of God. o Yet the wrath which 7,b fpeakes ofhere, *as not kindled up- on that account; God hmfel:e declaring that he was moved to de!troy him without any fuch taufe. That fire was. ,kind- led for the tryall and exercife of his patience, not for the pii- nif,?meat ofhis wickedneffe. He bath kindled his wrath ruing ante. Hence Nöte; Fira, The wrath of god is terrible. A fire kindled to warme is comfortable. ( faith he in the Prophet, ha. qq.. ) I am warme, I have ferne the fire; but a fire kindled onely to'confume is dreadful!. The wrath of -God is fometinnes as a fire raked up, fometimes°its a fire blowne up : The light ofIfrael(hall be fora fire, and his holy Onefor flame, and it /ball hurtle and devoure his Mornes and his boyars ( Inch are all his enemies who fcratch and retire his people) in one day. The Lord isa confirming fireco his owne ( Heb. 1 2.29.) for the burning out of their corruptions; but he is a confirming fire to the wicked, and unbeliever, for the burningup of their perfdns ; he is a confirming fire to chele and yet they (hall not confume ; he is a fire whole heat is unfufferable , andyet they mutt fifer it ; the "fire of his wrath is unquenchable by any thing but the blood of Chrift ; And the fire of the wrathof Chria is altogether unquenchable. Ifhis wrath be kindled, who alone quencheth the wrath of the father, how fhall his wrath be quenched, or whoJhall quench it ? Pftl. 2. 12. Secondly, Note ; e.1 godly man may be under force prefent apprehenfi. ens of wrath. He bath kindled his wrath againfi rae. ?cb was riot onely fn- tibie of the abatement ofhis outward comforts, but he felt force fparklings of the*Oath of God, in the abfence of inward com- forts. Ch (t bath deli^ered believers from the wrath to come, yet even theymay fee and feele wrath kindling and coming upon them, Thirdly,
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