37<8 Chap. 28. an Expofition upon the B2ok, of J o B. Vcrt. z8.; coupfel, and feek meanes to avoid an impendent danger. When theYews at the hearingof Peter' Sermon were pricks at the heart, and Wucken with Tome beginnings of this fear , as teeing them- felves in the fuburbs of hell , they prefently went to couu:el in the cafe,Saying to Peter and there of the 4poftles, men and bre ehrenWhatJhall we doe? (Adt; z. 37.;O give us your advife, tell us how we may p; event our eternal mifery. And when Saul was fmitcen down (Aix 9. 6.) He trembling andaftoni(hed fad, Lord . what wilt thouhave me to doe ? There's nothing more inquititive then fear is. Thirdly, This fear puts us upon an application to all chofe . means which we areadvifed to, for our anfwering the duty com- manded, for our obtaining the mercypromifed, or for our avoid- ing the evil chreatned. Holy fear makes the head ferious and the hand indufirìous 'cis a great fervant to Faith, a fhacpe fpur to prayer when once Faith fees our dangers,fear battensremedies. Delpair of the end makes carelefs of the meanes but fear of an evil which is coming, makes us careful either to keep it from coming, or to get 'above the reach of it when it is come. As ` öab was moved with fear whenhe heard of the flood, fo being.. moved with fear,heprepared an Arke, in which himfclf and family were faved from the flood. Szcondly,'Tis wifdom to fear the tord in reference to his workes ; and thefe, firfl, his Common ordinary workes of provi- dence;And it argues by fo much a more fingular holinefs wrought in us, by how much we the more fear the Lord uponobfervation of what he commonly works (pr. 5. 22, 23, 24.) We find the Lord not only expeétìng that his people fhould, but even wondering that they didnot fear him in that refpect. Fear ye not one (faith theLord) will you not tremble at my prefenee, which haveplaced the/andfor the bound of theSea, by aperpetual degree, that it cannot pafs it,and though the waves therefore toffe themfelver, yet they cannot prevaile ;though they roars, yet can they not pats over it ; But this people bath a revolting and a rebellious heart: they are revolted andgone. Neither fay they in their heart, let us now fear the Lord our god that givetb rain, both theformer and the latter rain in its feafon. Here arc two things inaanced in ; fi ff, tie bounding the Sea which was fo from the beginnïng,and is therefore a workof an old. date, and as ordinary as the Sea- dhoar.
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