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ment turns a land like a garden of God into a 

 dead sea, and a lake of brimstone. If he dis- 

 cover himself by any overt expression of his 

 power, though the intention be mere mercy and 

 loving kindness, mortality shrinks from it, and 

 cannot bear it. When his glory descends on 

 Mount Sinai, the people remove, and stand afar 

 off, and — ** Let not God speak with us (say they) 

 lest we die': and f' Depart from me, O Lord,'saith 

 St. Peter, amazed at that miraculous draught of 

 fishes. How much more should the inhabitants of 

 the world tremble before him, when his great and 

 sore judgments are in the earth : J Tremble, thou 

 earth, at the presence of God (saith the Psalmist) 

 even when he improves the hard rock into a 

 springing well : much more when '^a fruitful land 

 he turns into barrenness, or a stately city into 

 ashes, for the wickedness of them that dwell 

 therein. || I am horribly afraid, saith David, for 

 the ungodly that forsake thy law ; and ^ I ex- 

 ceedingly fear and quake, said Moses, at the 

 giving of it : but when our Lord shall come 

 again to require it, ** The powers of Heaven shall 

 be shaken too ; the Angels themselves, (as St. 

 Chrysostom interprets) though pure and innocent 

 creatures, shall tremble (Of i'gao-t) tt to see the se- 

 verity of that judgment. How much rather ought 

 we, wretched creatures that we are, conscious to 



* Ex. XX. 18, 19. t Luc. V. ii. J Psm. cxiv. 7, 8. 



§ Psm. cvii. 34. || Psm. cxix. 53. % Hebr. xii. 21. 



** Matt. xxiv. 29. ff Horn. 77. in Matth. 



