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

By how much the more God puts himself forth in his power and justice, by so much the more he is to be feared. 'Tis prophesied (Rev. 15.3.) that when God shall show forth his great power, and execute the severity of his justice upon Antichrist, then, they who shall get the victory over the beast, and over his image, &c. shall sing the Song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty, just and true are thy ways thou King of Saints. What followeth? Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy Name? The vengeance to be poured upon Babylon will be so great a demonstration of Gods power and justice, that it will give occasion to all men, the faithful especially, yea, it will call upon them aloud to fear God: Who shall not fear thee? As if he had said, surely there is no man so stupid, so stout-hearted, or so hard-hearted, but if he see God in, or at this wo k, he will have dreadful apprehensions of him, and fear before him. Yet this is not spoken of such a fear as Christ hath fore-told shall seize upon and possess the hearts of men before his glorious appea•ing (Luke 21.25, 26.) There shall be signs in the Sun, and in the Moon, and in the Stars, and upon the Earth, distress of Nations with perplexity, the Sea and the Waters roaring, mens hearts failing them for fear, &c. It shall not be (I say) such a fear, a hea•t-failing, but a heart-enlarging fear; not such a• fear as they have, or rather, as ⟨p. 643⟩hath them, who have their hope only in this life (these shall fear with an amazing, desponding, despairing fear) but such a fear as they have, who, through grace, have risen up to a full assurance of hope, or, are begotten again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for them.

By how much the more God puts himself forth in his power and justice, by so much the more he is to be feared. 'Tis prophesied (