Polanus1561
Puritan Board Junior
When God comes to refresh a sinner, he comes ‘skipping over the mountains,’ Cant. 2:8, as if he never could be soon enough. And the father ‘ran to meet his son,’ Luke 15:20. But yet now in the progress of his judgments God’s motion is slow, and he comes on by degrees. The apostle takes notice of this, 1 Peter 3:20, ‘The long-suffering of God waited as in the days of Noah, while the ark was preparing,’ God waited long, and Noah gives warning; there were one hundred and twenty years respite for repentance, and all the while Noah is building the ark, and he is preaching of righteousness to the ungodly, to see if he could move them to repentance. Nay, when the time was expired, God allows seven days more, Gen. 7:4; and when those seven days were expired, the heavens did not pour out of a sudden, but the rain was increasing till it came to the height—forty days and forty nights.
Manton works 14:177
Manton works 14:177
