A Practical Commentary on the Epistle of Jude

2. We must yield him reverence in his worship: God is said Psal. 68. to be terrible in the holy places: he is not only terrible in the high places of the field, where he executeth his ⟨p. 199⟩dreadful judgements, nor in the depths of the Sea, where the wonders of the Lord are seen, but terrible in the holy places, where his Ordinances are dispensed, because there his holiness, which is the astonishing Attribute, is most seen and remembered. We do not come to him as the supreme Majesty, when we do not come with awful apprehensions, God is dreadful there where he is most comfortable, Deu•. 28. 58. That thou mayst fear this glorious and fearful Name, the Lord thy God: To have God for our God is the ground of all our comfort and hope, and yet 'tis a glorious and fear full Name: In Mal. 1. 14. the Lord urgeth two arguments why we should worship him with reverence; one is, I am a great King, saith the Lord of Hosts; the other is, My name is dreadful among the heathen, implying in the first, that careless and rude addresses to him are a kind of a lessening his Majesty, they do not come to him as a great King, and do as much as in them lieth, go about to persuade the world that he is not the God that he is taken to be, so great, so terrible, and glorious. The next argument is taken from his respect among the heathens that know him by common providence, they that have but a glimpse of his glory, that know least of his glory, yet know enough to fear him, and reverence him: Therefore take heed of serving him in a loose and perfunctory manner, you dishonour God exceedingly else, even then when you come to give honour to him.

2. We must yeeld him reverence in his worship: God is said Psal. 68. to be terrible in the holy places: he is not only terrible in the high places of the field, where he executeth his ⟨p. 199⟩dreadfull judgements, nor in the depths of the Sea, where the wonders of the Lord are seen, but terrible in the holy places, where his Ordinances are dispensed, because there his holynesse, which is the astonishing Attribute, is most seen and remembred. We doe not come to him as the supream Majesty, when we doe not come with awful apprehensions, God is dreadfull there where he is most comfortable, Deu. 28. 58. That thou mayst fear this glorious and fearful Name, the Lord thy God: To have God for our God is the ground of all our comfort and hope, and yet 'tis a glorious and fear ful Name: In