Chap. 10, 44-Boo/Non ttptn the Book f J O B. Ver(. 25 . 3 5 3 beret hit wrath as a judge, who at aRedeemer came to deliver is from the wrath which i s to come, There are flee thrnga in this fudge, which makehis wrath molt dreadfult, first 9 He it futh a Judge at the power ofthe most pow-erf 111 cannot dart. secondly, He it Each aJudge as the wealth of the wealthL ft: cannot bribe. Thirdly , He la fit h a PAW, as the wit and fnbtllty of the wig frtt and molt fubtile cannot delude, Fourthly, He is fuch a Judge,as there is no appealing From his feptence, Fifthly, He is fuch a Judge, as there is no repealing ofhis fentence, What he Pets downe í%í1t fland for ever. All which ?ob appiyes to his friends in the lait words of the Chapter; Be ye afraid ofthe fword :for wrath bringeth the pttnifbment of the fwordd that ye may know there i., a 7ndgement. Secondly, This carries Comfort, and fpeakes joy to Saints. How f.ueec is it to remember , that their Redeemer is their Judge. For as the Apostleargueth, who /had condemne, it is God that jitflifies ; fo mi: y they, Who íhall condemne ? it is Chrift that judgeth us. The timeof the Judges comming, is the time of their refrelbing. So the Apofle`Peter calls it in his Sermon, Act, 3. 19, 20 ) Repent yetherefore,and be converted,that your fanner may blotted out, when the tunes of refrefhing ¡hall come from the prejence of the Lord.'What thefe times are is expreffed (Verf.. 20.) And he ¡hall (end 7e[um Chrifehich before waspreached unto yore, whom the heavens mug receive"7tnti!l the timer of tke reffiru- ti.m of ail things. When Christ thail reftore and fet all tight, which tin bathdifordered ( which will be a tittle of Judgement tlneilionleffe, if not the time of the lafi Judgement ) then it will be a time of re refhing to all the people of God ;evenof fuch re- freíhing ( and infinitely more ) as the weary labourer or tired traveller takes in his repofe under the cooled fhades(ás the word there ufed implyes) which fetcheth up his fainting fpi- rite, and renewes his Strength. When God came at once to judge, and reftore Ad.vn after Hs fall, he came in the ceole of the day ( Gen. 3. 8 ) And when Jefus Chrilt íhall cc me to ltid andperffa the reílauration of man, though it will he the heart, Z z cf
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