Matthew Poole and continuators on Malachi 3:6

6 For I am the LORD, I change not , therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed .

This introduceth the final, and full confirmation of what hath been foretold in the verses before, the God of Judgment will come, &c.

As he loved Righteousness, and hath purposed to defend and reward it, yea, hath promised, it shall be well with the Righteous, so he now loveth Righteousness, and purposeth to deal well with them that love, and practice it, these may rejoice, I change not. And so on the other hand I do as I ever have hated wickedness, and will as I have threatned, punish it, I change not, my mind toward the things or persons that are wicked, is the same.

Either taken for all the natural branches of Iacob, or taken for such as are the Sons of Iacob according to the Faith, who did indeed fear God.

Since the same hatred of sin, and resolution to punish i[illegible: 1 letter] accompanied with the same long suffering, and patience, that you Sons of Iacob by Nature (but not by imitation) who have provoked me, and deserve to be destroyed, might yet have time to repent, and amend, since my long suffering changeth not, you are not yet consumed in your sins. So for the good, though they are opprest, and suffer, yet not consumed, for God changeth not, he now doth love as he ever hath loved them, and preserveth them. In brief God is the same in his Wisdom to order the rewards of good and bad in fittest season, and therefore neither the one or other are consumed, but both preserved to the season appointed of God, the just Judge, and then each shall be dealt with according to what they are.

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