There is no way to kill a man's righteousness but by his own
consent. This Job's wife knew full well; hence she tempted him to
lay violent hands on his own integrity. Job 2:9.
FAILINGS AND SINS OF CHRISTIANS.
"And Noah began to lie a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard. And
he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within
his tent."
This is the blot in this good man's scutcheon; and a strange blot it
is, that such a one as Noah should be thus overtaken with evil. One
would have thought that Moses would now have begun with a relation
of some eminent virtues and honorable actions of Noah, since now he
was delivered from the death that overtook the whole world; and was
delivered, both he and his children, to possess the whole earth
himself. Indeed, he stepped from the ark to the altar, as Israel of
old did sing on the shore of the Red sea; but as they, HE soon
forgot; he rendered evil to God for good.
Neither is Noah alone in this matter. Lot also, being delivered from
that fire from heaven which burnt up Sodom and Gomorrah, falls soon
after into lewdness. Gideon also, after he was delivered out of the
hands of his enemies, took that very gold which God had given him as
the spoil of them that hated him, and made himself idols therewith.
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