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Chap.
3
2.
an
Expofition
upon
the
Book,
of
J
o
D.
Verf.
2.
15
Firfl,
ejf
godly
man in
maintaining a
good
caufe, may
give
juf'
reafon
of
anthers
paffion or
anger.
job
was
a
good man,and
his caufe was g
ood,yet
you
fee
a
wife
and
a
good
mans wrath
is
kindled.
Paul
and Barnabas
were
two
good
men,
yet
a
difference
arofe
between them
(fiîls
15.
39
and
the
contention was
ft
(harp
between
them
that
they departed
afunder.
Secondly, Confidering
the
caufe
of this anger in
generali,
Be-
caufe he
jolt
tfi'edhimfelfe
rather
then
good
;
we fee
it
was an
anger
for
Gods
caufe.
Hence
note
;
ginger
for
God or
in
the
caufe
of
God is
holy
anger.
Though for
the moll part the
flefh or our
carnall
corruption is
the
caufe
of anger,
and
it
begins at felfe
;
yet fometimes
it
is
flitr'd
in
the
caufe
of
God.
It
is
faid
of
Mofes,
the ltieekefl man
on earth
(
Numb.
12.
3.
)
that
when he faw-the
idolatry
of
the
people
(
exod.
3
2.
r
9.
)
His
anger
waxed
hot
;
He
was fo
angry
that he
call the Tables of
the
Law which
God
had
written with
his own hand, out
of
his hand and broke
them.
It
is faid
(Mar.3.
5.)
je
f
uo
Chrift
lookèd
about
on
themwith
anger,
being
grieved
for
the
hardneffe
of their
hearts;
He
alto
exprefl
a
great deale ofzea-
lous
anger
(Yoh.
2.
15.
)
when
he made
a
whip
of
fmall
cords,
and
drove
the
buyers
and
fellers
out
of
the
Temple. Some
of the He-
DR
age_
tell
us,
that the
word
here ufed for anger,
fignifieth anger
non
iret notar,
carried out
to
the deflru6lion of fin,
and
that
is a
very gracious
quo
forum gáir
anger.
There
are two things
whi
h-exceedingly declare the
hole-
peccari,tun
quo
neffe
of
a mans
fpirit.
Firft,
when he can
patiently beare
loads
of
f
frveriras
iu-
evills and
wrongs in his owne caufe, or which have
but
a
privateßtlTimo
eke-
refpe&. Secondly,
When
he
is
ready
to
take fire
in
the
caufe
of
ßnefl.
oc:
God
;
many
dull
and
fluggilh
foules can
heare
God
abufed,
and
Koe
prabes
ab
their
fpirits ftirre
no
more
then
a
flone
;
Elihu
was
angry
,
but it
negationem
tai
was
in
the
caufe
of
God
;
or,
Becaufe
fob
y4/
fled
himfelfe
rather
&rmundifiin.
then
God.
When
we are angry
with fin, we are
angry
(as
the
A-
juriarun
ferens
poflle advifeth
us
to
be
)
and fin
not;
That's
anger
without
n,
aurém crreu
on
when we are angry with
fin
;
and
are flirted
up
to
oppof
e
and
pi,
;
idq;
iii
fuppreífe
the pride
and
infolencyof
mans
fpirit
or fpeeches a-
utnot
ad
vin_
gain(}
God
;
To
be
angry for our owne
honour,
and
intereff,
or
dicandu'n
r
d
Gourd,
ad
e,nerdandum
exfluinulGYes.