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

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 (Ezek. 26.16.) Then all the Princes of the Sea shall come down from their Thrones, and lay away their Robes, and put off their broidered garments, and shall clothe themselves with tremblings. Doubtless they had little mind to such change of raiment, they had rather have been clothed with rags; but the ⟨p. 439⟩Lord would make them do it. And as those confederate Princes or friends of Tirus should clothe themselves with trembling, so 'tis prophesied (Zech. 15.2.) that Jerusalem should be, not only a burdensome stone, but a cup of trembling to all her enemies. As if the Lord had said, This shall be their punishment who would make my Jerusalem tremble, I will make them tremble at the remembrance of Jerusalem, or at the sight of those great things which I will do against them, and for Jerusalem.

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-aw 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 battel. The Lord threaten'd it as one of the sore Judgments that he would bring upon his People the Jewes, for their disobedience (