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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
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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.
Thirdly, When we learn to depend and hang upon him for all, as he that can do all things graciously for us, as well as speak so terribly to us; then we hear diligently the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
Thirdly, When we learn to depend and hang upon him for all, as he that can do all things graciously for us, as well as speak so terribly to us; then we hear diligently the noise of his voice, axd the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
For the close of this matter I shall only add; That though we ought to be affected with the voice of God in his Word, as with his voice in Thunder, yet let us not stay in that, which notes chiefly, if not only, that dread of God which the word leaves upon our spirits; but let us look after and labour for that effect of the Word, which like the beams and light of the Sun, may warm our hearts with joy, and leave strongest impressions of the kindness and favour of God upon them. Mr. Forbes, opening that Scripture (Rev. 14.2.) where St. John saith, He heard a voice from heaven, and that of three sorts.