Chap. 23. An ExpaJrion upon the Book of JO B. Verf. i 5 . 455 mutt charge it upon the want of Confideration, that fo many have fuchundue and unbecoming thoughts of God, as alfo chat their thoughts fall fo much below b_;th their duty, and their fins: ifwe did but Confider how finfull we are, and how holy God welhouid alwayes ferve him with feare, and rejoyce with trem- bling ; When I confider I am afraidof him. 7ob was n (raid ofhim when he coolidered him, and fo was Afapb (Pal. 77. 3.) In the dayof my trouble Ifought theLord, my fore ran in the night and ceafed not,myfruit refufed to be comforted. I rememhredGodand wu troubled, I complainedandmy fpirit was everyhrimed. Such a remernkrirg of God is not a bare aft of the mind, in oppofition to forgetfulnes,as if Afaph had laid, I rernembredgod;that is,l did not forget him, but I remembred god, that is, I fixed myheart upon him,I minded hire full ?, or feet him fully before my minde : though the remembranceofGod is the fpring ofComfort to us, and that many wayes, yet an AAf aph, a holy man, Theholycfl a- mong many men,may be troubled when he remembersGod,when he Confidershis glory, greatnes, power, and Ma¡efty, and him - felfe a poor worme.When the holy Prophet Ifaiah law the Lord (invifion) fitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and law the Seraphims covering their faces and their feete, and beard them cryingoneunto another, and laying, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord ofhofff, the *hole earth infull ofhisglory.Then he laid ; Woe is me for Iam undone, becaufe 1am a man of uncicane lips, &c. What a concuffionwas there uponhis fpirit upon the meeting of theft two vifions ; fir,`,, that of the holines ofGod ; fecondly, that of his own uncleaneneffe, (Ila.6, i,2 3,4,5 ) Mofes who had fuch intimacy with and accefle untoGod, is yet defcribed trembling at his giving the Law (Hob. z 2.21. )Andfo terrible was the fight,; that Mofes laid, Iam exceedingly af-aidand tremble :Mofesknew that Godwas his friend, a God in Covenant with him,yet Mfrs Paid,/ exceedinglyfear, andquake ; the fight and voiceof God isour BlefTednes, yet there maybe a troublefome and a terrible both fightand voice ofGod,even Mofes was afraid : and fo was Habakkuk (Ch.3. 16 )When Iheard (that is,thy Speech;ver.z,) my belly trembled,my lips quivered at the vcic_e,rotteanef; entred it= to my bones, and I trembled inmy felfe, &c. And at fail wicked men (thoughnow founconfidering who God is) (hall have fah Confiderations ofhim as fhall for ever drowne and fwallow them up
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