5. Oppressors have it not all their
own way; they have their fits of trembling and their appointed seasons of
overthrow. There—where they denied God and hectored against his people;
where they thought of peace and safety, they were made to quail. A panic terror
seized them: “they feared
a fear,” as the
Hebrew puts it; an undefinable, horrible, mysterious dread crept over them. The
most hardened have their periods when conscience casts them into a cold sweat
of alarm. As cowards are cruel, so all the cruel are at heart cowards. ForGod is in the generation of the righteous. This makes the company of the
godly so irksome to the wicked because they perceive that God is with them.
Shut their eyes as they may, they cannot fail to see that he works for their
deliverance. Even though the saint may be in a mean position, mourning at the
gate where the persecutor rejoices in state, the sinner feels the influence of
the believer’s true nobility and quails before it, for God is there. Let
scoffers beware, for they persecute the Lord Jesus when they molest his people;
the union is very close between God and his people, it amounts to a mysterious
indwelling, for God is in the generation of the righteous.
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