Commentary upon the Prophecy of Isaiah

Now if there be such horrible judgements of God here in this world, how fearful and terrible will he be when he shall come at the last to judge all men? For all the examples of chastisements, which now astonish and amaze us, are but small beginnings of that last vengeance, wherein he will thunder upon ⟨p. 115⟩the reprobate: and he also reserves and defers many things which he seems to pass over in silence, even of set purpose until that day. And if the wicked be not able to bear the blows wherewith he smiteth them here below; how much less well they be able to sustain his fearful and incomprehensible Majesty, when they must come before his tribunal seat of glory, at whose presence even the very Angels are astonied?

Now if there be such horrible iudgements of God heere in this world, how fearefull and terrible will he be when he shall come at the last to iudge all men? For all the examples of chastisements, which now astonish and amaze vs, are but small beginnings of that last vengeance, wherein hee will thunder vpon ⟨p. 115⟩the reprobate: and hee also reserues and deferres many things which hee seemes to passe ouer in silence, euen of set purpose vntil that day. And if the wicked be not able to beare the blowes wherewith he smiteth them here below; how much lesse well they be able to sustaine his fearefull and incomprehensible Maiestie, when they must come before his tribunall seate of glory, at whose presence euen the very Angels are astonied?

When he saith, from far; note that we ought not to wax senseless when prosperity abounds: for all such as extenuate the power of God by a false security, which rocks them asleep in their vices, shall feel, that in an instant he can, and also when he will, shake both heaven and earth, even from the one end thereof to the other.

When he saith, from farre; note that wee ought not to waxe senselesse whē prosperitie abounds: for all such as extenuate the power of God by a false securitie, which rockes them asleepe in their vices, shall feele, that in an instant he can, and also when he will, shake both heauen and earth, euen from the one end thereof to the other.