_USES OF ANGER_
‘Doest thou well to be angry?’ ‘Be ye angry, and sin not.’
Jonah 4:4 (with Ephesians 4:26).
The former text implies that there is an anger which is sinful; and
the latter text implies that there is an anger which is not sinful.
The difference lies not so much in the character, or... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE PREPARATIONS OF GOD_
‘The Lord God prepared.’
Jonah 4:6
There is often great looseness and want of precision in our thoughts
about God and His actings.
And these always produce their natural effects—viz., a loss of
power; so that we do not attain to what we might be, simply because we
do no... [ Continue Reading ]