An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…

Secondly, There is a Legal trembling, proceeding from a spirit of bondage, or the dreadful apprehensions of the wrath of God against sin (Rom. 8.15.) This in many is precedaneous to their true conversion, and, as a needle, makes way for the spirit of grace and adoption, by which thread they are united & fastened unto God through faith, & walk in a child-like fear before him all their days.

Secondly, There is a Legal trembling, proceeding from a spirit of bondage, or the dreadful apprehensions of the wrath of God against sin (Rom. 8.15.) This in many is precedaneous to their true conversion, and, as a needle, makes way for the spirit of grace and adoption, by which thread they are united & fastned unto God through faith, & walk in a child-like fear before him all their days.

Thirdly, There is a penal or judiciary fear and trembling. God in judgement sometimes fills the heart of sinful man with fear, as the punishment of his sin. They who have no fear of God in their hearts to keep or over-awe them graciously from sinning and living in a course of sin, are delivered up to a spirit of fear, which continually pursueth them with dreadful apprehensions of the wrath of God, and of some imminent and impendent evils, ready to fall upon them for their sins; A dreadful sound is in their ears (as Eliphas told Job, Chap. 15.21.) yea, as he speaks there (vers. 24.) trouble and anguish make him afraid; they prevail against him, as a King ready to battle. The Lord threatened it as one of the sore Judgments that he would bring upon his People the Jews, for their disobedience (Deut. 28.65.) I will give thee a trembling heart; yea, he threatened (Isa. 52.17.) to give them the dregs of the Cup of trembling. Ezekiel (Chap. 12.18.) was commanded to tremble, as a sign to the People of that penal fear and trembling which God would send upon them. Such was that trembling spoken of (