There are other proofs, less visible indeed, but not less real, of God's anger, which may be found in the horrors of a guilty conscience, or the distresses of a soul that is under the hidings of his face. Hear what was Job's experience under a sense of God's displeasure : " The arrows of the Almighty are within me ; the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit : the terrors of God do set themselves in array against mee." To the same effect the Psalmist also speaks, when describing the anguish of his own mind : " Thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger ; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. I am troubled ; I am bowed down greatly ; I go mourning all the day. I am feeble and sore broken ; I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart f." The unhappy end of Judas shews how insupportable is a sense of God's wrath, when the consolations of hope are altogether withdrawn.
But, after all, there is nothing that will give us such an idea of God's anger, as a view of the Lord Jesus Christ when " Jehovah's sword awoke against him" to inflict the penalty that was due to sin. Behold that immaculate Lamb of God sweating great drops of blood from every pore of his body, through the inconceivable agonies of his soul ! Hear him, in the depths of dereliction, crying, " My God, my God! why hast thou forsaken me ? " and see him, finally, giving up the ghost, and dying under the load of his people's sins ! Could we at all appreciate this mystery, we should indeed say, " Who knoweth the power of thine anger ? "
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d 1 Cor. x. 8—10. e Job vi. 4. f Ps. xxxviii. 2, 3, 6, 8.
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