1It is most dreadful for sinners for God to take the controversy into his own hand to contend with them in a way of judgment; It is a fearful thing to fall into the hand of the living God You think Ministers are hard, they preach terrible things; but if you have to deal with God immediately, if he should not speak to you by man but come himself and plead with you, you would find it harder to deal with him. When Jobs friends were pleading with him, he could easily make his part good with them, but Chap, 38. ver. 1, 2. God himself comes and speaks out of the whirlwind, Who is he that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? and so goes on in a chapter or two; Chap. 42. ver. 5. Job falleth down now and saith, I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye s•eth thee, wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and as•es. Psal. 130.3. is a notable scripture for this purpose, If thou Lord shouldest mark iniquity, Oh Lord who should stand? Mark the words, how Lord is twice here repeated, it would have been full sense thus, If thou Lord shouldst mark iniquity who shall stand? There would have been a mighty emphasis in the word Jehovah, who shall stand, for it is thou oh Jehovah; but it comes in again, to Note that herein lies the Emphasis, if thou Lord shouldst mark iniquity, Oh Lord who shall stand? This Oh Lord seems to be a pleonasm, one would think that it breaks the sense, but the scope is to show that the sight of having to deal with God in our sins, is very terrible, If thou Lord ma•kest,2 then Oh Lord who shall stand?
1It is most dreadful for sinners for God to take the controverse into his own hand to contend with them in a way of judgment; It is a fearfull thing to fall into the hand of the living God You think Ministers are hard, they preach terrible things; but if you have to deal with God immediately, if he should not speak to you by man but come himself and plead with you, you would find it harder to deal with him. When Jobs friends were pleadi•g with him, he could easily make his part good with them, but Chap, 38. ver. 1, 2. God himself comes and speaks out of the whirlwind, Who is he that darken•th counsel by words without knowledg? and so goes on in a chapter or two; Chap. 42. ver. 5. Job falleth down now and saith, I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye s•eth thee, wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and as•es. Psal. 130.3. is a notable scripture for this purpose, If thou Lord shouldest mark iniquity, Oh Lord who should stand? Mark the words, how Lord is twice here repeated, it would have been full sense thus, If thou Lord shouldst mark iniquity who shall stand? There would have been a mighty emphasi• in the word Jehovah, who shall stand, for it is thou oh Jehovah; but it comes in again, to Note that herein lies the Emphasis, if thou Lord shouldst mark iniqity, Oh Lord who shall stand? This Oh Lord seems to be a pleonasme, one would think that it breaks the sense, but the scope is to shew that the sight of having to deal with God in our sins, is very terrible, If thou Lord ma•kest,2 then Oh Lord who shall stand?
- 1[…] Gods pleading is, the more dreadful.〈…〉 Gods pleading is, the more dreadfull.
- 2sin causes a dreadful controvercy between God and man.
