436 VerC 8. ^In'E.rpofition stpon the liockof J o B. Chap. 37; co fall upon your heads. WhenGod threatned Pharaoh to bring a florin of hail upon the land of Egypt (that was indeed a rain cf his ffrength) a mighty rain of hail, the text faith (Exod. 9.20.) He that feared the word of the Lord amongst the fervants ofPha- raoh, madehis fervants and his cattelflee into the hotefes ; but they whole hearts were hardned, let them flay abroad, and fo they pe- ri(hed. Sinners, you hear of a worfe (loran of hail threatned than that which fell upon Egypt,even the rain of the (lrength of the Lords wrath, revealed from heaven agaiin[+ you ; (hall the beafls in fuch a dayof difirefs go into dens, and remain in their places, and do you think to abide the day of the Lords terrible coming ? Do you think to {land it out when he appeareth ? The Prophet fore hewing the day of Chrifls fir(l coming in frail fle(h, Paid (Mal.3. T. ) Whomay abide the day ofhis coming ? and who fhallRandwhen heappeareth ? for he is like a refiners fire, and tike fullers lope. Now if the day of Chrills firfl coming was fuch as finners could not abide, when he came only with refining fire to fetch out the drofsoftheir fins, andpurge away their corruption!, thalh(inners ( impenitent and unbelieving (inners I mean) pre- fume that they (hall beable to abideor endure that day of his le- cond coming, when he (hall come with confuming fire to punith and take vengeance on them for their fns ! Away with thefe vain confidences, which (as the Prophet told the fewer, Jer. 2. 37.) the Lord will certainly rejeEt , and in which you can never prof - per, and go into thofe holes of the rock, the wounds of a cru- cified Saviour, in which, and in which only, you maybe fafe and. Paved for ever, from the Snow and great Rain of Gods flrength,' the power of his anger, which none know at prefent ( ffal. go. T I. ) but all mull feel, who are not (heicred from it by efue Chrìft, who delivered) ou from the wrath to come (t Thef. T. ao. ) J O B,
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