A35537:1632
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of the book of Job being the substance of thirty-five lectures / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1664
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-fifth, Th… › Chapter 37 › Verses 1-2
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now if the Word of God be in all these respects like Thunder, Let us not only hear, but attend, or as the text saith, hear attentively the sound of his voice.
If any ask, when do we both hear and attend with the inward and outward ear, the Thunder of God, or his voice both in his works and in his word? I answer,
First, When we are stirred up to high and holy thoughts of God. We are never rightly affected with the Word of God, till our hearts are wrought up to, and deeply, at least truly, affected with the God of the Word.
Secondly, When our hearts are raised up in thankfulness for any discoveries of God in his goodness and mercy to us, who can so easily destroy us by his power. He that trembles at this voice of God, and hath no sense nor taste of his goodness, nor is moved to praise and serve him, trembles only like a brute beast.
Secondly, When our hearts are raised up in thankfulness for any discoveries of God in his goodness and mercy to us, who can so easily destroy us by his power. He that trembles at this voice of God, and hath no sense nor tast of his goodness, nor is moved to praise and serve him, trembles only like a bruit beast.