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

Secondly, We should mark, that as Thunder and Lightning are a kind of Voice or Word of God to us, so the Word of God, or the Voice of God, speaking in his Word, is a kind of Thunder and Lightning to us, very mighty, very powerful, even clothed with an irresistible power and might. And therefore if we take the Prophet David in 29th Psalm before mentioned, speaking, in the former part of it, of the effects of Natural Thunder only; yet toward the close of the Psalm, he applieth it to the Word of God, while he saith (v. 9.) And in his Temple doth every one speak of his glory; that is, the Word and Ordinances of God, ministered in his Church, or Temple, will put every one to acknowledge and speak of the glorious Power of God, even much more than the mighty Thunder which soundeth in our ears, or the subtle Lightning which flasheth in our eyes. There is a far more royal power in the Thunder of the Word, than in the word of Thunder; This terrifieth only to Conviction, but that terrifieth to Salvation; for after God speaks terror there in his Threatenings, he speaks comfort in the Promises; and when he ⟨p. 465⟩hath affrighted us with a sense of our sins, and of his wrath due to us for our sins, as with an horrible tempest, he presently refresheth us with the gentle gales of revealed grace, and with the pleasant amiable Sun-shine of his favour by Jesus Ch i•t. And therefore in respect both of the Natural and Spiritual Thunder, considered in the circumstances and consequences of it, Elihu might well conclude, as he doth, in the last words of this Verse and matter, Great things doth he, which we cannot comprehend.

Secondly, We should mark, that as Thunder and Lightning are a kind of Voice or Word of God to us, so the Word of God, or the Voice of God, speaking in his Word, is a kind of Thunder and Lightning to us, very mighty, very powerful, even clothed with an irresistible power and might. And therefore if we take the Prophet David in 29th Psalm before mentioned, speaking, in the former part of it, of the effects of Natural Thunder only; yet toward the close of the Psalm, he applyeth it to the Word of God, while he saith (v. 9.) And in his Temple doth every one speak of his glory; that is, the Word and Ordinances of God, ministred in his Church, or Temple, will put every one to acknowledge and speak of the glorious Power of God, even much more than the mighty Thunder which soundeth in our eares, or the subtil Lightning which flasheth in our eyes. There is a far more royal power in the Thunder of the Word, than in the word of Thunder; This terrifyeth only to Conviction, but that terrifieth to Salvation; for after God speakes terror there in his Threatnings, he speaks comfort in the Promises; and when he