288 2 The deceißfulaaeJfe of Mans heart. (thy Children and Servants difhonour the Name of the Lord many wages, and yet waft never halle fo angry ? Here was the tryall of Mof s his anger : When the people murmured, and when Korth re- belled a ainft him, here was juft caufe of anger; But here Gods caufe and his own were coupled. Let us therefore mark Moles his behaviour when they were fingled , Nurr& t a. Aaron and Mariam offer him a private injure : it is Paid his meekneffe was filch that he gave them not a word. Again,Exod.3 2. the people had fallen to Idolatrie, and had made a Calk, and Aaron had his hand therein : Here Gods quarrell was fevered from his own. And how ca- ries he himfelfe here ? He (pares neither Aaron,nor the people, but in a godly fir of zeale takes on , breaks the two tables in pieces, &c. A meeke lambe in his own it- Jude : A fierce Lyon in Gods. Heere was pure n ter, free from guile and gall. z If our anger be properly againft finne, then it will keep us from finning grofly in being angry. For what likelihood is there that he is truly angry againftfinne, that commits a greater finne in his anger, than the finne whereat he is angry? Thus many are angry for fmall offences, which indeed are finites alto agaiufi God : but in their anger they are fo diftempered that they break out into cur fing, raging, rayling, &c. which are farre greater firmes, then that wherewith they are difconrenr.l Here was DùziJs anger againft Nabal difcovered to ,' be faulty. He might happily perfwrd. himfelfe he I l ad carfe to be offended; For Nabals churti(h un- rhankfulneífe was odious to God : Yet that was l nor
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