Chap. 19. eon expofstiin upon. the Book of Jos. Ver% 1 1. 217 Thirdly, The apprehenfions of wrath are mere grievous to a believer, then all his etherfi.ffBrings. lc is poffible to beare all f crows with comfort, which are feperate from wrath. The plague of thunder and hayle upon Egypt was grievous, but that which made it very grievous was to fee fire mingled with the hayle, (Exod. g. 24.) 'Tis the minglings of the fire of divine anger with the ftorme of thun- der and hayle, the troubles of this life, which renders them fo grievous ro be borne. ' Tis wrath which makes hell fo terrible, the fire in hell would he (comparatively to what it is) but as a warme Sunne, did not the breath, that is, the wrath of *he Lord like aflorome ofbrionflone kindle it, as it is Paid ofTophet, (I{à.30. 3.) As the wrath of God makes hell fo hot to the damned for ever, lo it is fume appearance of wrath, which makes afflietion fo hot to believers for the prefent. He loath kindled his wrath againfi me. And counteth me as one ofhis enemies. `lob fpake this language before, ( ('hap: 13. 24.) wherefore hidef thou thyface, and hold'eft me for thine enemy ; there he trou- bledly expotlulates the matter with God about it, here he af- firmes direetly; He loath kindled his wrath againi me, andcount- eth me as one of his enemies ; Though the words carry the fame generali fence, yet we have fomewhat here worthy our obferva- tion and difcufion, betides what was there held forth. He path counted. . That is , He bath reckoned and fet me downe , or ca ft me up zo`I in the number ofhis enemies ; all thofe tranflations the word will beare. Againe; He bath counted me ,ts bis enemies. TheText is plural! in the Heb ew, not as we render, As one Infante eft, fi- of his enemies, but, as his enemies. That is, as a deadly, not as a cut adverfarics common enemy ; as if I were fuch an enemy to him, as had the f "os e r r enmitie of all his enemies contraed together in mee he ttnum ex adve,- counts me, not as a tingleenemy but as Héft of enemies. farijsuir. It is a frequent Hebraifine in Scripture, to put a word of the F f plurali
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