2. This eminently shineth forth both in his Works of Creation and Providence. 1. Creation, in the stupendous Fabric of the Heavens, Jer. 32. 17, 18, 19. Ah Lord God, behold thou hast made the Heaven, and the Earth by thy great power and outstretched arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee, &c. In that mighty Collection of Waters in the Sea, we cannot look upon that vast expansion of the Firmament, that huge body of Waters in the Sea without some religious horror, what is the God that made all this, Jer. 5. 22. Fear ye not me, saith the Lord? will ye not tremble at my presence? which have placed the Sand for a bound to the Sea, by a perpetual ⟨p. 187⟩decree that it cannot pass it, and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it. 2. Providence, whether in his way of Mercy or Judgment. Mercy; what a Majestic description of God is there, Ps. 50. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. yet there his presence in his Church is described. The drift of the Psalm is, to set forth Gods Power and Majesty when he comes to call the Gentiles, and to set up the Evangelical way of his Worship, when the light of the Gospel shall shine forth from Zion, Psalm 5. 5. by terrible things in Righteousness wilt thou answer us, Oh God, thou God of our Salvation. Though God is a God of Salvation, yet the way of his delivering them carrieth Majesty and Terror with it. So his Works of Judgment, Psal. 119. 120. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy Judgments, when the wicked of the Earth are put away like dross. A Lyon trembleth to see a Dog beaten before him, and it is imputed as a fault to the wicked, that they do not take notice of it, Isa. 26. 10. They will not behold the Majesty of God.
2. This eminently shineth forth both in his Works of Creation and Providence. 1. Creation, in the stupendious Fabrick of the Heavens, Ier. 32. 17, 18, 19. Ah Lord God, behold thou hast made the Heaven, and the Earth by thy great power and outstretched arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee, &c. In that mighty Collection of Waters in the Sea, we cannot look upon that vast expansion of the Firmament, that huge body of Waters in the Sea without some religious horrour, what is the God that made all this, Ier. 5. 22. Fear ye not me, saith the Lord? will ye not tremble at my presence? which have placed the Sand for a bound to the Sea, by a perpetual ⟨p. 187⟩decree that it cannot pass it, and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it. 2. Providence, whether in his way of Mercy or Judgment. Mercy; what a Majestick description of God is there, Ps. 50. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. yet there his presence in his Church is described. The drift of the Psalm is, to set forth Gods Power and Majesty when he comes to call the Gentiles, and to set up the Evangelical way of his Worship, when the light of the Gospel shall shine forth from Sion, Psalm 5. 5. by terrible things in Righteousness wilt thou answer us, Oh God, thou God of our Salvation. Though God is a God of Salvation, yet the way of his delivering them carryeth Majesty and Terror with it. So his Works of Judgment, Psal. 119. 120. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy Iudgments, when the wicked of the Earth are put away like dross. A Lyon trembleth to see a Dog beaten before him, and it is imputed as a fault to the wicked, that they do not take notice of it, Isa. 26. 10. They will not behold the Majesty of God.
