3,,,3o Chap. 28. An Expofition upon the-Book of J o u. Verf. 2.S tion (Chap. 15. 4.) ringing theFong of Ofofer for their viaory over the bear}, make a very emphatical inference of this fear from the then appearanceof the judgements of Godupon Baby- lon ; Who would not fears thee OLord, andglorifie tby Name, for thy judgements aremade manifeft. As if they had faid,thou OLord haft given all men caute or ground fufficien t to fear thee, feeing thou haft made the juftice of thy proceedings againft thine Ene- mies fo plain to all men ; thy judgementsare great,yec nogreat- er then they have deferved. Who or where's the man,that hcares or fees there things, and cloth not fear thee ? Secondly, As wo;kes ofjudgements, fo of mercy,fhould a&u. ate this holy fear in us. Some read that (Pfal. 55. 19.) to this fenfe fully,rendring the wordes thus ; witbwhom (although there be) no changes, yet ;bey fear not God. And fo their want of the fear of God is made (not as the place was expounded even now, an effeec of their having no troubles, but ) an aggravation of their wickednefs in the midft of fuch long continued and (without any interruption) enjoyed mercies. Toe Apóftle (km. i x. 1.) be- leeches the Saints at Rome by the mercies of Cfsd toprefent their bo- dies(which we are to underftand fynecbdochically for their whole man) a livingfacrifice, holy, acceptable untoGod,which (faith he) is your reafonable fervice ; and which fervice (I may fay),is the pi- acting of our filth! fear. This is prophefiedas the charaaer of the belt men in the belt of times (.Hofea 3. 5.) The children of lfracl (hall return and leek the Lord their god, and David ( That is, Chrift) their King, and !hall fear the Lordand hregood. nefc in the latterdayes. Thole latter day es will be all holy dales, forchinthere will be the mo(t plentiful powring out of the Holy Spirit that ever the people of God were under ; then the good- nefs of God will molt appear, and then men (ball not only fear the Lord who is good, but the Lord and his goodnefs, or the Lord for his goodnefs and that, not only for the goodnefs of his nature, but for his goodnefs declared and communicated to them in his workes. The good and great things that God doh for his peo?le br.fpeak a kind of awe in their hearts, and the more they raft his goodnefs to them, the more and the more fpiri u,l is their fear. When Teter had been royling all night, and could take ne- thing,yet at Chrifis command, letting down the nett, he enctofed a rear multitude of fiches; ('tis a twto.d. from Chia maims our wc.k
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