646 Chap. at. An Expo /itioí3 upon th! Book of J o B. Vert E7 wicked man is hardned in the fight and under the feelingof them. To the fecond : The people of God under the Law being dealt with more by vifib:e difpenfations ofmercy and judge- ment in the times of the Law (as is evident, efpecially hroughont the twenty. fixch Chapter of Leviticus , and the twenty-eight ofDeuteronmy ) they were more fubjeft to feare and defpondings of fpirit, upon fad providences and appear- ances, then now beleevers are under the Gofpel. Thegrace of God appearing more eminently in thefe Gofpel timesby Jens Chrift, and the love ofGod being more aboundantly flied a. broad in the hearts ofbeleevers by the Holy Ghoft, they are delivered from that fpirit of bond ge, and the preffures of fer- vile fear, under which formerly they were extreamely held in fubjeftion : and have therefore clearer caufe of rejoycing and gloring in tribulatio; then they had ; and offaying with Paul; Wee areonly its (rrowing, yet alwayes rejoicing, as havingne- thing,yet pffifi'g all things : For as perfe& love calteth feare (that feare which bath torment) quiteout, i Epift. 7,4.4.18.) fo the more love is perfected, the more is feare cart our,
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