5. Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? See how
the psalmist makes bold to plead. We are in time as yet and not in eternity,
and does not time come to an end, and therefore thy wrath? Wilt thou be angry
always as if it were eternity? And if forever, yet wilt thou be angry with us, thy favored people, the seed of Abraham, thy friend? That our enemies
should be always angry is natural, but wilt thou, our God, be always
incensed against us? Every word is an argument. Men in distress never waste
words. Wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations? Will sons
suffer for their fathers’ faults, and punishment become an entailed
inheritance? When we are under spiritual desertion we may beg in the same
manner that the days of tribulation may be shortened, lest our spirit should
utterly fail beneath the trial.
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