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So Isaiah lxvi. 15, 'For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.' And so in many other places. So we read of God's fierceness, Rev. xix. 15. There we read of 'the wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.' The words are exceeding terrible: if it had only been said, 'the wrath of God,'the words would have implied that which is infinitely dreadful: but 'tis not only said so, but 'the fierceness and wrath of God.

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