Chap. 21: At Expofitionupon the Bookof Jo B. Verf. 6. 6s}5 cd ; as in thenext verte; Wherefore doe the wicked live, become psrrim mira del old,yea are mightie inpayer ? When I remember thefe difpen- adminilfrattane de qua mos di- lations of God, is ftrikes me with terrour. Amu eli, fie Trembling takethhold on my fit/h- cenrurbari ut taus horreat. This claufe heightens the former, Tam altogether afraid,I do Merl_ not only tretrb.e, but trembling taketh holdof ine.J'fofes (peaks in this forme (Exod. 15. i 3.) Thou in tit] mercie haft ledforth thepeople which thou haft redeemed, d-c. God had but ;tiff put them over the fea, and yet, by the fpirit,Mofes taw them put in- to the poffefïion of Canaan,and his faith prophefied what poi- tore other Nations fhould be inwhen God fhould doe thefe things ; The people (hall htare and be afraid, furrow (hall take hold ofthe inhabitants ofTalfftina. He faith not they fháll b: full of forrow but forrow (hall take holdof them, as a Sergeant s tantscalami- takes holdof a man to arreft and carry him away.So it follows; tart, tot a recur Sorrowfhall take heldof the Dukes of Edom, the mághtie men of datio me con- Moab, trembling hall take holdof them. In this the Scripture f.? naret quanta g f F magia vas pr& Pets forth the exceffiveneffe of their troubles, that feare fhould fentes f animñ not onely fall upon them, but take hold ofthem.Thus faith lob, adr erteris ne- I am not onely afraid, but trembling bath taken holdofmy fiefh. `Erarium elf And if the remembrance of thefe things makes me afraid and cbíame á eem°h tremble, how can you who are prefent but be troubled and meant. tun, deeply affe&ed with the fight of them ? I need not draw out particular obfervations here , having ¡hewed uponother places how dreadful the judgementsofGod are, and what effects they have produced upon the fpirits of good men. Habakuckwho had, only a propheticall v.fion of them, expreffeth his fence in the higheft languageofamaze- ment (Chap. 3. i 6.) When 1heard, my belly trembled, my lips quiveredat thevoyce, rottenneffe entred into mybones,1trsmbled. in myfelfe, that Imight reft in the day oftrouble. Onelyhere obferve a double difference. Firft, Between the godly and the wicked at all times. Secondly, Between the godlyof thole times undér the law,, and the go 'ilÿ, who live in thefe Gofpell times. To the firlt ; A godly man trembles at the judgements of God, a wicked man is little moved at them, The forefight or remembrance of Jud;ements makes a godly man feare, but a.. wicked,
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