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A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word…
A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applied / by Geo. Swinnocke ...A treatise of the incomparableness of God in his being, attributes, works and word opened and applyed / by Geo. Swinnocke ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1672
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. It is efficacious in affrighting the Sinner: He speaks (not as Men or Angels, to the Ears only, but) to the hidden-man of the Heart, and shatters it in pieces; he plants, his Batteries of Threatenings, and Terrors, and Curses, against the inward man of the Conscience, and puts it into an Ague of trembling and shaking Fits, (as we see in Herod, Acts 24.27.) and levels it to the ground. This word in the mouth of a poor Prisoner at the Bar, frights the proud sturdy Judge on the Bench. When God speaks, he makes the best people afraid, and cry out, Let not God speak to us, least we die, and the best of that people exceedingly to quake and fear, Exod. 19.19. Heb. 12.21. The Voice of the Lord is terrible, it shaketh the Cedars of Lebanon, it shattereth the Oaks of Bashan, Psal. 29. Those that were Monsters of Mankind for Cruelty and Barbarousness, for Stupidity and Searedness, by his Word have been terrified in their Spirits, wounded in their Consciences, cut to the Heart, and forced ⟨p. 178⟩to call out, Sirs, What shall we do to be saved? Acts 2.37.
2. It is efficacious in affrighting the Sinner: He speaks (not as Men or Angels, to the Ears only, but) to the hidden-man of the Heart, and shatters it in pieces; he plants, his Batteries of Threatnings, and Terrors, and Curses, against the inward man of the Conscience, and puts it into an Ague of trembling and shaking Fits, (as we see in Herod, Acts 24.27.) and levels it to the ground. This word in the mouth of a poor Prisoner at the Bar, frights the proud sturdy Judge on the Bench. When God speaks, he makes the best people afraid, and cry out, Let not God speak to us, least we die, and the best of that people exceedingly to quake and fear, Exod. 19.19.