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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 edition. Excerpt: ...unless it help us in the attaining of life eternal; neither is it any blessing, unless ita disponatur de minimo, quemadmodum convenit summo, ' the least thing be so disposed of, as that it conduceth to the greatest, ' or at least so as that periculum non fiat de maximo, ' hazard of the greatest matter be not incurred.' Why long life is given to the wicked. Object. But why doth God give long life to the wicked seeing it is here promised to the godly? Answ. For divers reasons; 1. To prove if at any time they will be brought to repentance, 2 Tim. ii. 25. 2. God respecteth their progeny; as cutting off wicked Amon, good Josiah succeeded him, 2 Kings xxi. 24; and cutting off Ahaz, good Hezekiah succeeded him, 2 Kings xvi. 20; now that these good kings might come of them, He first suffered those wicked kings to live long before they were cut off. 3. Because He must have rods of His wrath to punish His disobedient children, and for trial of His church; Esay x. 5, " O Assyrian, the rod of Mine anger, and the staff in their hand is Mine indignation." 4. Every one of us may learn an universal document from hence, Rom. ix. 22; if God, to make His wrath and power known, suffer with long patience the vessels of wrath prepared to destruction, we must learn much more to be patient and long-suffering in those injuries that are done to us. 5. To conclude this point, and so to make an end of this commandment; if God do give long life unto the wicked, He will be even with them for it another way; as we may see, Esay lxvi. 24, a. the godly shall come forth and look upon their condemned carcasses; /S. their worm shall never die; that is, the worm of their Part conscience shall evermore trouble them; though their '---. life be longa, 'long/ it shall...