Chap: 6. AnExpofitiosi upontheBook,ofJ O S. Vere 4. 43 t troubling. Thy terrours, that is, the terrours which thou didit afffia me with ; Or paffively, for thofe afflictions which opprels the mind;whenGod leads that army against us, lets it inarray to wane" reer©- r frequenter charge, and commands it to incamp about us, in either fence we iSertptur+i may take this ofJob, as allo that ofHeman, Pfal. 88. 15. While I fumttur pro fufer thy terreurs, I am dilfra(led. ,flageliie mal;fq Further, There is a two-fold terrour First, caufcd by outward grat'tp'm° a imminent danger. Secondly, caufed by inward guilt. Or, Ter- Dee mfr. rout coming from the wrath ofr man sand terrour coming from the wrathofGod. Thus it was threatened, Levit. 26, t 6. I alle will doe even this unto you, I will appoint over you terrours. Dent. 32, 25. Thefwordwithout, andterrour within, (hall deJfroy both theyoung man and the virgin. That is, fear Ihall kill thofe who efcape the fword. A people cannot Rand before the Army of men, who are once furprifed with an Army of terrours : Hence Jofh. 2. 9. Your terrour isfallen upon us, faith Rabab, to allure the (pies that the Canaanites could not hand before the people ofIfrael. Again, The terrours of God afflia the foule ; First, When fin is let openly (to the eye ofconlcience ) in array against us. An army offins are an army of terreurs. The Church is cal- led, Terrible as an army with banners ; Cant. 6. t o. when the is flrengthened andarmed for the exercifc ofall that power, which Chrift bath given her ;and whenour fins 'land before us, in all thatílrength,which the law bathgiven them,they alloare terrible øs an army with banners. Secondly, When God hides his face from us, an army of ter- rours quickly faces us , Though anarmy of fins come out in array, againfi us, yet ifGod appear to us, in the fulnefs and freenefs of his grace ; if Chrift our Captaine will but leade us on againfl this army, we {hall quickly overcome them, or they will the before us ; But an army of fins is etceeding terrible, when Chrift appears not in the field for us, or when God hides his face from us, and leaves us in the dark : It is ufual in Scripture, to fa': forth terrours, as the effect of that darknefs, and the hidings= of the face of God ; Naturally, terra= accompanies dark fiefs ; children are afraid in the dark , and not only children, but men: Hiflories tell us ofgreat Emperours who durft not be in the dark, for fear. Andas natural terrours meet us innatural dark- nefs, fo-fpiritual terrours in fOritual dasitnels -; When the light
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