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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 21-22
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First, In the day of Conscience, or when their own Consciences are a terror to them. How sad is it for a man to have God and his own Conscience terrible to him at once! When sinners are awakened, when God sets their sins in order before them, they are a terror to themselves, as it is said of Pashur (Jer. 20.3.) The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor Missabib, that is, fear round about; I will make thee a terror to thy self, thy own Conscience shall be terrible to thee. A man had better fall into the hands of the most cruel Tyrants in the World, than into the hands of his own Conscience. But when a man is a terror to himself, then to have the Lord a terror to him likewise, to have God appearing in terrible Majesty, how dreadful is it! The awakened Conscience of a sinner carrieth in it, as a thousand witnesses, so a thousand terrors; and God in his anger is more terrible than a thousand consciences.
First, In the day of Conscience, or when their own Consciences are a terrour to them. How sad is it for a man to have God and his own Conscience ter•ible to him at once! When sinners are awakned, when God sets their sins in order before them, they are a terrour to themselves, as it is said of Pashur (Jer. 20.3.) The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor Missabib, that is, fear round about; I will make thee a terror to thy self, thy own Conscience shall be terrible to thee. A man had better fall into the hands of the most cruel Tyrants in the World, than into the hands of his own Conscience. But when a man is a terrour to himself, then to have the Lord a terrour to him likewise, to have God appearing in terrible Majesty, how dreadful is it! The awakened Conscience of a sinner carrieth in it, as a thousand witnesses, so a thousand terrours; and God in his anger is more terrible than a thousand consciences.